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No doubt, administrators at Provena Covenant Medical Center must have experienced some financial challenges since the non-profit lost its property tax exemption. If so, however, they're hiding it... Read more...

Hospital chain Health Management Associates has vowed to take a tougher line in collecting from self-pay patients, in a move designed to rid the chain of a reputation for being less aggressive than... Read more...

> The Massachusetts Attorney General is taking a hard look at why Caritas Christi Health Care is scraping bottom financially. Read more...

The Archdiocese of Boston continues to struggle to sell or turn around its financially-troubled Caritas Christi Health Care. Most recently, the Archdiocese failed in its bid to unload Caritas to a... Read more...

Struggling to pay even their basic expenses, primary care doctors are increasingly asking patients for an annual fee in addition to co-payments on insured services. This isn't a high-touch concierge... Read more...

As FierceHealthcare readers know, last year the state of New York embarked on what may be the most aggressive Read more...

> Retail clinic operator RediClinic plans to open seven Austin-area clinics inside local grocery stores. Article

> Atlanta's faltering Grady Memorial Hospital, which has been on the verge of collapse financially, has selected a new CEO to oversee a turnaround. Article

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Florida hospitals stand to lose $300 million a year if changes proposed by the federal government are passed. The state is in the paradoxical position of having done too well financially last year, having made good money with sales taxes and document stamps. Now, under the new rules, the feds would cut back the percentage of the state-federal split that they pay into the low-income pool, ultimately leaving state hospitals having to absorb a $209 million shortfall. The state's public …

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> New Hampshire hospitals shifted $345 million onto privately insured patients in 2005, according to a new report. Article

> Cigna HealthCare for Seniors has agreed to reimburse doctors for Web-based "e-visits" and online health services. Article

> Autism diagnoses are on the rise. Now a …

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> Connecticut HMOs are financially healthy, partly because they're paying out less on medical costs, one analyst says. Article

> The demographics of physicians working in group practices are changing--and this is having a big impact on turnover. Release

> Like many private sector organizations, the Pentagon is arguing that it can't afford its …

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