Following its 2018 merger, Bon Secours Mercy Health faced a fragmented patient monitoring environment, with inconsistent technologies, networks and clinical workflows across facilities. Through a 10-year collaboration with Philips, the health system is building a standardized enterprise monitoring platform across…
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Payer friction is often treated as a series of isolated challenges: an eligibility issue, a prior authorization delay, a documentation gap or a denial to resolve. But across a fragmented revenue cycle, those challenges rarely stay contained. As friction moves…
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Five former students in Texas Wesleyan University’s Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice program have sued the Fort Worth-based school, alleging it dismissed them as part of a fraudulent and discriminatory over-enrollment scheme. The complaint, filed Oct. 2 in the U.S.…
Waterloo, Iowa-based Cedar Valley Medical Specialists has ended operations, according to an Oct. 31 statement from Gregory Harter, MD, and the group’s physician leadership posted on Facebook. The group said its physicians were willing to keep working without pay “throughout…
Physician-owned ASCs have more options for corporate partnership than ever, and those partners are themselves changing hands. St. Louis-based Ascension completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of AmSurg in June, growing its ASC network from 58 centers to more than 300…
Port Huron, Mich.-based Northpointe OB-GYN has been acquired by McLaren Port Huron, part of Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care, according to an Oct. 29 news release. Northpointe is the area’s only comprehensive OB-GYN provider. The practice will become McLaren…
A Glendale, Calif.-based physician has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for billing Medicare more than $45 million for Botox injections that were medically unnecessary or never provided, according to the Justice Department. Violetta Mailyan, DO, owned and operated…
Dallas-based U.S. Anesthesia Partners has reached settlements in principle in two proposed class action lawsuits alleging it overcharged Texas patients and health plans for anesthesia. The parties disclosed the agreements in notices filed Oct. 30 in the U.S. District Court…
University of Miami Health System, known as UHealth, acquired Physicians Group of South Florida, effective Nov. 2. The deal moved the North Miami practice’s three gastroenterologists to UHealth SoLé Mia Medical Center. David Cohen, MD, Arin Newman, MD, and Daniel…
Dallas-based Lincoln Property Company and PGIM acquired the SOBO Medical Building, a 52,410-square-foot outpatient medical building and surgery center in Boerne, Texas. The building opened in 2019, is about 93% leased, and its anchor tenants are Baptist Health System and…
