On March 22, both of California's health insurance regulators signed off on Centene's $6.8 billion acquisition of Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Health Net., according to California Healthline.
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The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care granted accreditation to Summit Atlantic Surgery Center in Florham Park, N.J.
The Joint Commission updated sentinel event statistics through the end of 2015.
Congress passed legislation that would adopt site neutral payments for medical providers treating Medicare patients last fall, affecting off-campus hospital outpatient departments built or acquired after 2016, according to a report from The Hill, and savings to Medicare are at…
Oswald Rondon, MD, joined The Eye Clinic Surgicenter in Billings, Mont., according to a Billings Gazette report.
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Of the 1.4 million to 4.4 million small businesses the Government Accountability Office estimated to be eligible for the tax credit, merely 181,000 small businesses claimed the Small Employer Health Insurance Tax Credit in 2014, according to The Business Journals.
Wisconsin-based Aurora Health Care is slated to open an $83 million outpatient surgery center in October, according to The Journal Times.
Sacramento-based Sutter Health recently signed an agreement to become the majority owner of Modesto, Calif.-based Stanislaus Surgical Hospital, according to The Modesto Bee.
Overwhelming debt and the long training process deters many from pursuing a career in medicine, but the career's many benefits often outweighs the cons, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Many patients do not ask their physicians essential questions out of fear. Kevin Haselhorst, MD, an emergency medicine physician, outlines the 10 questions patients do not ask physicians, and urges patients to ask these questions because the information could help…