HealthCare Appraisers (HAI), a nationally recognized leader in providing fair market value opinions and valuation services for the healthcare and life sciences communities, recently published its Healthcare Transactions 2009 Year in Review, a compendium of key trends that were observed…
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Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa (Calif.) has dropped plans for a physician-owned medical center, planned as part of its 70-bed expansion project, because it would not meet the new requirements for physician-ownership put in place by the healthcare reform…
Declining reimbursements, uncertainties about the future and the hassles and costs of running a practice have all combined to make many of today's physicians yearn for some sense of security. In a growing number of cases, they have found it…
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A Suffolk County (Mass.) Superior Court judge has ordered insurers Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Fallon Community Health Plan to base premium increases off of 2009 rates, rather than higher figures the plans had hoped to use to determine 2010…
From 2001-2010, there were nearly 100 different HHS' Office of Inspector General physician self referral and kickback settlements. In just the last two years (2008-2010) there were more than 20 such settlements. At the same time, there has been an…
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions recently held a hearing on regulating insurance premium increases, and the committee's chairman, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), voiced support for such regulation, according to a report by AHA News Now.
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies, which represents 32 medical professional societies, has released its Code for Interactions With Companies, which provides detailed guidance to medical specialty societies on appropriate interactions with for-profit healthcare companies, according to a CMSS news…
Amkai has added two new sales executives to its staff, expanding its direct sales force to five and supporting the company's movement toward continued growth in business opportunities for Amkai's administrative management and electronic medical record software solutions, as well…