Atrium Health is getting bigger with the combination of Elkin-based Hugh Chatham Health, a 900-employee institution that has an 81-bed hospital in the northwest N.C. city. Hugh Chatham Health also has a medical group with more than 70 providers across 25 locations, a home healthcare division, and joint ventures in a hospice/palliative care organization. Details about the combination were disclosed at the event in Elkin today. Winston-Salem-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist has agreed to invest $100 million in Hugh Chatham Health and an additional $30 million for a new community foundation.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. has appointed Mike Cotton as the new leader of its Medicaid insurance segment, according to Bloomberg, filling a previously vacant position following recent leadership changes at the healthcare giant. Cotton, a longtime insurance executive, will head the Medicaid unit, UnitedHealth confirmed to Bloomberg News. The company also announced that Bobby Hunter, who now leads the Medicare insurance division, will take on an expanded role as CEO of government programs, with oversight of both the Medicaid and Medicare businesses. These appointments represent the latest executive changes since Stephen Hemsley, the company's board chair, returned to the role of CEO.
After UConn Health abruptly reversed course calling off a plan to cut stipends aimed at recruitment and retention for 260 nurses, four Senate Republican leaders called on UConn top administrators to address what they referred to as 'obscenely high upper level management salaries throughout the university.'
A federal court has backed Oregon's efforts to keep a closer eye on major healthcare business deals, rejecting a legal challenge brought by the state's hospital lobby group. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's ruling, finding that a state law that gives the Oregon Health Authority the power to review — and even block — hospital mergers and other major healthcare transactions is not unconstitutionally vague.
A recent court filing alleges that more than $1 billion in payments were made to insiders of the now-bankrupt Steward Health Care, including its former CEO and a private equity firm.
AdventHealth has chosen a new leader for its flagship facility in Orlando. The healthcare provider announced this week that it had named Abel Biri to lead AdventHealth Orlando along with having executive oversight of AdventHealth for Children. He succeeds Rob Deininger, who was recently appointed president/CEO for the East Florida Division of AdventHealth.