Medicare will make advance payments available to physician groups, hospitals, and other healthcare facilities as part of its response to the February 21 Change Healthcare cyberattack.
Seeking to unravel more than a decade of financial maneuvers that left some of the hospitals in a precarious state, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey sent a six-page letter to Steward with two dozen queries.
Southcoast, a non-profit system that already operates three hospitals in Massachusetts, said it does not yet have a deal in place with Steward but was examining potential ways to put a transaction together.
Armstrong County Memorial Hospital will join Indiana Regional Medical Center and Punxsutawney Area Hospital as the third member of Pennsylvania Mountains Care Network under an agreement signed Wednesday, leaders announced.
When Mike Lauf joined Cape Cod Healthcare in 2008, he saw the makings of a top-flight healthcare system. The quality of nurses, physicians and other personnel was there, he said. What was missing was the organization to bring all of the pieces together.