Although recent numbers indicate Ballad Health’s revenues are continuing to maintain an overall lead on expenditures, Executive Chairman, President and CEO Alan Levine believes the system’s operating margin still has room for growth.
The Walker County Hospital Corporation announced Monday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Huntsville Memorial Hospital has been facing financial struggles and searching for a health system partner for more than a year. In September, the Walker County District Board signed a letter of intent with Community Hospital Corporation.
Some independent pharmacies near downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row say they are struggling and it's all because the state of California has cut back on how they reimburse for very specific medications. They say that it could contribute to the homeless crisis.
U.S. hospitals’ sticker prices for two common sources of surprise medical bills have climbed far faster than economic inflation, a new study suggests. Researchers focused on so-called chargemaster rates, or sticker prices, for two services that are often the source of surprise medical bills for patients - emergency medicine and anesthesiology.
Highmark Health President and CEO David Holmberg received $7.49 million in 2018, according to a new federal tax filing, an amount that included $1.4 million base pay and $5.47 million in bonus and incentive pay.
In what is its first healthcare-related acquisition since spending $753 million in June 2018 to acquire PillPack, Amazon.com inked a deal to buy Health Navigator, a start-up that provides digital triage tools and symptom lookup. The value of the deal was not disclosed. Amazon intends to offer Health Navigator services to its employees, shedding further light on where the e-commerce giant is heading in the healthcare market.