The Business of Surgery PatientRightsAdvocate.org (PRA), a 501(c)(3) “nonprofit, nonpartisan organization focused on ushering in systemwide healthcare price transparency,” has released its latest Hospital Price Transparency Report, which finds 51% of the 2,000 hospitals it reviewed “are still failing to comply with the federal rule that went into effect more than five years ago…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) “shared concerns” with CMS regarding the calendar year 2027 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System proposed rule. AHA wrote that the proposed net payment update of 2.4% is “not adequate given the financial challenges hospitals and health systems face.” In…
Sanford Health and North Memorial Health announced that they have finalized their partnership and are now one nonprofit integrated health system operating as Sanford Health. The combined organization will “preserve” North Memorial Health’s Robbinsdale Hospital and “its essential role as a Level I Trauma Center while making significant investments that…
Samaritan Health Services has received approval from the Oregon Health Authority for its proposed affiliation with MultiCare Health System, which was announced last year. The two Pacific Northwest nonprofit health systems can now move forward with remaining regulatory approvals and legal and administrative steps to complete the transaction. Samaritan Health…
When a hospital is deciding where to invest its capital dollars, every department competes for a slice of a finite pie. While ORs vie for new equipment, technology or renovations, the SPD needs a new sterilizer; radiology seeks a new C-arm, and other departments are looking for their own upgrades.…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized a consent order involving Ascension’s proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of AMSURG. The FTC’s final consent order requires Ascension to divest seven AMSURG ASCs across Nashville, Tenn.; Panama City, Fla.; Tulsa, Okla.; Waco, Texas and Wichita, Kan. Six of the centers will be divested…
A new report in Delaware Business Now dives deeply into what the media outlet describes as a “turf war” between two of the state’s health systems for preeminence in the southern part of The First State. Wilmington-based ChristianaCare dominates more populous northern Delaware, while the incumbent health system in more rural…
Integrated Surgical Center of Arizona (ISCA) has joined the network of ASC developer and operator Regent Surgical. Located in Avondale, Ariz., ISCA is a multispecialty ASC led by three Arizona physician organizations: IMS Care, described as Arizona’s “largest independent multispecialty physician group”; AZ Heart Arrhythmia Associates; and Valley GI Consultants.…
According to reporting from Healthcare Dive and numerous other news organizations, Providence Health Plan, the insurance division of Pacific Northwest health system Providence, will close completely after talks with an unnamed national insurer to keep its Medicare Advantage plans afloat failed. In May, we reported that Providence Health Plan would…
Ear, nose, and throat (ENT) physicians have a issued a stark warning for patients, as well as for hospitals and ASCs who operate ENT service lines. According to a new survey of 1,406 ENT docs from the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), eight out of 10 say…
