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Judge: No evidence of crimes in anti-abortion group's recordings
10:15:00 AM
Recordings secretly made by an anti-abortion group at meetings of abortion providers do not show criminal activity and could put the providers at risk, a federal judge said Friday, citing the recent shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic.


Healthcare industry gets cybersecurity support in omnibus bill
Friday, December 18, 2015 4:15 PM
The healthcare information technology sector is hailing healthcare-specific cybersecurity provisions that have made their way into the massive omnibus legislation that Congress passed on Friday.


HealthCare.gov enrollment hits 6 million
Friday, December 18, 2015 4:15 PM
Six million people had re-enrolled or selected a plan for the first time on HealthCare.gov as of Dec. 17, the last day to have coverage effective Jan. 1. The CMS says the figure is about 60% higher than the number who had done so at this point last...


Dignity-owned U.S. HealthWorks acquires L.A. urgent-care center
Friday, December 18, 2015 4:01 PM
U.S. HealthWorks, an occupational health and urgent-care subsidiary of Dignity Health, has acquired Los Angeles-based Immediate Medical Care. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.


Biggest Medicare Advantage plan growth for 2016 flows to large insurers
Friday, December 18, 2015 3:45 PM
Kaiser Permanente, Humana and UnitedHealth Group have added the most Medicare Advantage members in the past two months, keeping their tight grip on that increasingly lucrative market. But enrollment across all private Medicare plans has grown at a...


Hallmark Health ends exclusive talks with Partners HealthCare
Friday, December 18, 2015 3:15 PM
Hallmark Health System announced it broke off exclusive talks to be acquired by Partners HealthCare after public outcry and legal and regulatory scrutiny left the deal in limbo.


FTC challenges NorthShore, Advocate mega-merger in Illinois
Friday, December 18, 2015 3:00 PM
The Federal Trade Commission moved Friday to block a proposed merger between Illinois systems Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University HealthSystem -- the third hospital deal the FTC has moved to block in the past six weeks. The Illinois...


32 hospitals will pay $28 million to resolve kyphoplasty probe
Friday, December 18, 2015 2:30 PM
Another 32 hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic, have agreed to settle allegations that they billed Medicare for kyphoplasty procedures as inpatient rather than outpatient services to make more money. More than 130 hospitals have now settled in...


Turing CEO Martin Shkreli ousted; interim chief named
Friday, December 18, 2015 1:00 PM
Turing Pharmaceuticals, which has been at the center of public criticism for drastically hiking the price of a generic drug for a rare disease, announced Friday the ouster of its unpopular CEO Martin Shkreli in the wake of his arrest this week on...


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