| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare
| GPO Vizient loses 20-provider network to Mercy's ROi | | Monday, October 17, 2016 2:08 PM | |
| | In what could be the start of a trend of providers flocking to smaller group purchasing organizations, ROi has inked a deal with a network of 20 acute-care hospitals across Texas, Arkansas and Missouri that previously worked with mega GPO Vizient. |
| MACRA rule deals blow to docs in Medicaid medical homes | | Monday, October 17, 2016 12:31 PM | |
| | Most Medicaid medical homes will not count as an alternative pay model under MACRA, according to the final rule released Friday that implements the law. More than 1 million Medicaid beneficiaries are signed up in medical home models around the... |
| ER wait times, length of stay far longer for psychiatric patients | | Monday, October 17, 2016 12:18 PM | |
| | Psychiatric patients wait disproportionately longer in emergency departments before receiving treatment and experience longer stays compared to other medical patients, according to reports released Monday by the American College of Emergency... |
| Dr. Rebecca Parker is new president of ACEP | | Monday, October 17, 2016 12:02 PM | |
| | Dr. Rebecca Parker has been appointed the new president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, effective immediately for a one-year term. Parker succeeds Dr. Jay Kaplan, who steps down after completing his one-year term at the medical... |
| CHS sells home health division | | Monday, October 17, 2016 11:45 AM | |
| | As part of a debt-reduction campaign, Community Health Systems has agreed to sell an 80% stake in its home health division for $128 million to a subsidiary of Louisville, Ky.-based Almost Family. The deal, announced Monday, is expected to be... |
| Penn State-Pinnacle drop merger after appeals court loss | | Monday, October 17, 2016 11:40 AM | |
| | Penn State Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System said Friday they are abandoning their proposed merger in the wake of renewed regulatory opposition from the Federal Trade Commission. |
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