President Donald Trump’s stalled campaign promise to send $200 drug-discount cards to seniors has new life after an obscure-but-important industry panel on Monday night gave its blessing, ending weeks of resistance to the plan.
Greater Cincinnati’s largest health care system has named a new chief financial officer. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital on Monday announced Paul Jenny as its new senior vice president and CFO. Jenny, currently senior vice chancellor for finance and administration at the University of California-San Francisco, will join Cincinnati Children’s Jan. 25.
Public employees typically must disclose their taxpayer-funded salaries, but man county hospital executives across Indiana are hiding behind a rare exemption added to state law in 2016.
The coronavirus pandemic has unleashed more than a flood of disease in this country. It's also expected to accelerate a wave of hospital mergers and acquisitions – with big hospitals buying up smaller ones. This consolidation, economists say, is one of the main reasons the cost of health care in this country is going through the roof.
A judge has approved a deal for Springfield Hospital to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It marks a tenuous step toward firm financial footing, a year and a half after the hospital filed for bankruptcy protection, too short on money to keep the heat on.
AstraZeneca Plc agreed to buy Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $39 billion in cash and shares, adding a specialist in the treatment of rare diseases and immunology to its portfolio of medications for cancer and other illnesses.