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To meet the challenges and complexities created by the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, hospitals and health systems must now devise new strategies to effectively market physicians. Since the PPACA, physician alignment activities have escalated, including…

The Governance Institute, a national research corporation, has released a case study on the organizational transformation of San Diego-based Scripps Health Service and the success of its president and CEO of 14 years Chris Van Gorder.

Bethesda, Md.-based Massachusetts Avenue Surgery Center is still awaiting state approval for 23-hour stays, though the center announced its intentions in January.

The FDA has granted FUJIFILM's Aspire Cristalle, a digital mammography system, 510(k) clearance.

Here are five ambulatory surgery center industry leaders who have recently stepped into new roles.

The American Hospital Association — joined by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — sent a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to bar civil monetary penalties under the False Claims Act.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling this week in the case of two companies against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its contraception coverage mandate. What, exactly, is at stake for the law?

Yesterday, PwC's Health Research Institute released its annual medical cost trend report for 2015, which is based on interviews with industry executives, health policy experts and health plan actuaries, whose companies cover a total of 93 million members.

Medtronic and Covidien announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Medtronic has agreed to acquire Covidien in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at a total of approximately $42.9 billion.

Does your practice have to schedule new patients out a month or more?