mergers and acquisitions
Healthcare M&A likely to keep pace in '08
Though it may be consolidation (rather than major takeovers) which drive healthcare M&A this year, expect to see the transactions keep flowing. That, at least, is the prediction of one investment... Read more...
Ex-Triad execs form hospital acquisition group
A group of former executives from Triad Hospitals have started a new company which will acquire hospitals in joint ventures with not-for-profit systems. The company, Legacy Hospital Partners of... Read more...
PA Blue plan pays $9.9M to settle physician suit
Physicians working with Pennsylvania Blue plan Highmark Inc. are in the final stages of a Read more...
UnitedHealth admits to big loss of PacifiCare patients
UnitedHealth Group's current troubles apparently go beyond ongoing investigations into stock option grant-backdating. At an investor conference this week, UnitedHealth executives said that they're... Read more...
160-physician group joins Essentia Health
Essentia Health of Duluth, MN is picking up a 160-physician practice which will add an additional 22 clinics to its footprint. The Dakota Clinic/Innovis Health, a Fargo, ND for-profit physician group... Read more...
Community Health to sell nine hospitals
Community Health Systems has agreed to sell nine of its hospitals to Capella Hospitals, a much-smaller company which currently owns and operates five facilities of its own. The nine facilities, which... Read more...
U of Pittsburgh gets DOJ information request
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has just disclosed that it got a request for competitive information last summer from the U.S. Department of Justice. The request, which didn't name any... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Bill would create federal registry of pharma gifts to physicians; Hospitals protest PA health plan merger; and much
> Congress may soon be considering a bill which would create a public registry of pharmaceutical industry gifts to physicians. Read more...
U.S. lawmakers want new nursing home regulations
Triggered by a wave of private investment in nursing homes by players like The Carlyle Group, federal legislators have begun to take a closer look at how such investments affect the care such homes... Read more...
Community Health discloses further federal scrutiny
Community Health Systems (CHS) has disclosed in securities filings that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating three of its hospitals on charges that the New Mexico facilities caused the... Read more...
