A $10 billion American health care merger may not leave shareholders feeling better. The AmSurg Corporation and Envision Healthcare Holdings are combining in an all-stock deal that will leave each with about half of the merged company. They are keeping two headquarters and still promising $100 million of annual synergies. There is little obvious value being created on the financial operating table.
Entitled patients, eager-to-please physicians, or greedy pharmaceutical executives -- Congress is uncertain where to place the blame for the rise of a potentially "unstoppable superbug." Nonetheless, Congress wants action.
Members of the local chapter of the International Union of Operating Engineers have a new option for their health care. On Thursday, the union unveiled a health care center specifically for its members. North Kansas City-based Cerner Corp., a health care information technology company, will run the center.
Two major health systems in the midstate that want to merge are offering their latest arguments in an ongoing court battle. Penn State Health and PinnacleHealth argue the government's case against the merger is weak.Lawyers with the Federal Trade Commission and state Attorney General's office are appealing a federal judge's ruling that allowed the merger to proceed.
Piedmont Medical Center has named Bradley S. Talbert as the hospital’s new chief executive officer, succeeding Bill Masterton, who took a job at a teaching hospital in Louisiana. Talbert will be responsible for overseeing all areas of operations at the Rock Hill hospital. He will report to Garry Gause, CEO of Tenet Healthcare’s Southern Region, effective Monday.
“Price transparency tools are not likely the panacea that many have hoped for with respect to controlling health care costs,” Dr. Kevin Volpp, the director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the Leonard Davis Institute, wrote in an editorial for The Journal of the American Medical Association.