Following months of termination threats and legal disputes between the two companies, Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare agreed to extend its nationwide payer contract with Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision (AmSurg) Healthcare. Read more.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Physician Services appointed Rebecca Parker, MD, its new Chief Medical Affairs Officer.
Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International plans to build an outpatient surgery center in Citrus Heights, Calif.
Cigna’s contract with Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare is set to expire Jan. 1, 2019, as the two failed to reach an agreement after 11 months of negotiations. Read more.
MedCore Partners is developing a two-story, 65,000-square-foot, class A medical office building and ASC, which Southlake-based Spine Team Texas will anchor.
NMS Capital made a strategic investment in Gahanna-based Central Ohio Urology Group along with the group’s physician shareholders.
Rockdale, Texas-based Little River Healthcare closed all of its facilities and operations Dec. 4 — including Temple (Texas) Surgery Center — due to “unfortunate financial conditions,” according to a statement on the system’s website. Read more.
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