Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics plans to double the size of its downtown Kansas City campus. The $800 million expansion, is expected to take from 12 to 15 years to complete, and will add 216 inpatient beds. It also will add hundreds of thousands of square feet of new outpatient clinics, offices and clinical lab space.
Aetna has announced that it has reached agreement with Capital Regional Medical Center. The contract adds the 198-bed hospital to Aetna's Tallahassee network, and allows members of Aetna network-based plans to receive covered in-patient and out-patient services, at in-network rates, from Capital Regional.
Under a recently unveiled plan, Georgians would pay an extra $10 annually for each car they register to help fund a statewide trauma care network. The plan could provide millions of dollars to financially strapped Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
Atlanta's Emory University is considering moving its hospital, outpatient clinic and some research facilities to one of the its satellite campuses. Emory is also considering another plan to consolidate hospital, outpatient and research facilities and expand its Crawford Long medical campus.
New Medicare rules for a small but promising class of cancer drugs may cause thousands of lymphoma patients to lose access to the treatment. The companies that make the drugs, and patient advocates, say the changes will cut reimbursement for the medicines and cause many hospitals to stop offering the treatments.
Massachusetts employers will spend an estimated $175 million more a year for health insurance under the state's healthcare reform law, according to a report from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.