rural health
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Strategy
St. Luke's in Minnesota Names New CEO
The health system's new top executive comes from a CHI Health hospital with Level 1 trauma center certification.
Strategy
Louisiana Passes Bill to Ban Freestanding Emergency Departments
Backers of the legislation say it will help to protect rural hospitals from the encroachment of freestanding EDs that don't...
Finance
Dignity Health Hospital in Arizona Dinged for Inaccurate Wage Data
The numbers submitted by St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center would have resulted in more than $11 million in overpayments...
Finance
Anthem Expands Behavioral Health Options With Beacon Purchase
The Indianapolis-based health insurer is set to acquire the largest independently-held behavioral health organization in the country.
Finance
Robin Hood To Rescue Of Rural Hospitals? New Math Promised On Medicare Payments
A federal proposal targets a long-standing and contentious regulation known in Washington simply as the 'wage index.'
Nursing
Final PACE Rule Allows Non-Physicians to Fill PCP Shoes for Some Services
The update is designed to bolster protections and improve care for program participants while easing up on the administrative and...
Strategy
Has Community Health Systems Finally Bottomed Out?
After selling more than 80 hospitals in three years, leaders of the large for-profit hospital operator are suggesting the worst...
New Physicians Barraged With Job Offers
The demand for physicians is so frantic that 64% of the 391 residents who answered the survey said recruiters were...
Dealing With Hospital Closure, Pioneer Kansas Town Asks: What Comes Next?
After depending on the local hospital for more than a century, Fort Scott residents now are trying to cope with...
Strategy
Gundersen Health System, Marshfield Clinic Mulling 'Merger of Equals'
The two CEOs say they hope to enhance care for their communities, bring costs down, and become 'the preeminent rural...
Finance
CHS Reports $118M Loss, Revenues Dip 8.5%
The for-profit rural hospital operator produced yet another dismal earnings report.
Finance
CMS Proposes Wage Index Hike for Rural Hospitals
The proposal aims to solve a disparity that CMS says can create 'a downard spiral' for low wage index hospitals....