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AMA Examines Decade of Change in Physician Practice Ownership and Organization
The analysis explores the changes in the ownership and organization of physician practices, as well as the reasons that private practices are sold to hospitals or health systems.
Greater Investment is Bringing In-Home Cancer Care To The Forefront
There are a number of cancer care at home programs and pilots in place right now, many of which are seeing success.
CMS Looking to Establish New Behavioral Health Intensive Outpatient Medicare Program
If the proposal is finalized, Intensive Outpatient Services may be furnished in hospital outpatient departments, Community Mental Health Centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics, according to CMS.
Why Optum and CVS Spent $17B on Home Health Companies
By bringing care into the home, payers like CVS’ Aetna and UnitedHealth believe they’ll be able to lower costs and act on health concerns before they become more acute.
Health System M&A Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels: Report
This was true not only with respect to the number of announced transactions, but also with respect to the total transacted revenue for the quarter.
Shore Capital Partners Closes over $640M for Two New Funds
HC Fund V will enable the firm to build upon its record of investing in microcap healthcare businesses and partner with companies across a variety of healthcare subsectors that have between $5 million and $200 million in revenue.
Biggest Opportunities for DSO Growth
Increasing automation of operations and adding new revenue streams are some opportunities DSOs can tap into to fuel growth, according to Barry Lyon, DDS.
Reform Group Pushes to Curb PE Control of Health Care
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund wants government officials to take action to slow what it dubs as “the increasingly harmful effects” or private equity’s control of massive swaths of the health care sector.
Johns Hopkins Hit with Class Action Suit Following Data Breach
The hospital system uncovered a third-party data breach in May.
Health Connect America Fined More Than $4.6M for Alleged Medicaid Fraud
As part of the resolution, HCA also agreed to be subject to a period of five years of increased compliance and oversight, during which any failure to comply with its obligations may result in criminal prosecution and contempt of court proceedings.