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Bidders lining up for Medtronic medical-supplies business: report
Cardinal Health Inc. is among several companies that are bidding to buy Medtronic's medical-supplies business, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. Dublin, Ohio-based medical-products supplier Cardinal is...
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Jay Inslee: CBO report confirms ‘our worst fears’ about GOP's Obamacare repeal
Washington state regulators are expecting to release details Wednesday on the impact of the House Republicans’ American Health Care Act. The Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday the act will...
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Doctors and insurers wage war over narrowing networks in Colorado
Colorado physicians are waging an aggressive campaign at the state capitol this year against insurers’ narrowing networks in the name of better health care, but business leaders say companies (and...
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CHS finds buyer for another group of hospitals
Franklin-based Community Health Systems Inc. is selling four Pennsylvania hospitals as part of its continued effort to pay down its sizable debt load. The company, which has struggled in the past year...
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Gov. Scott Walker: Wisconsin protected from prediction on millions losing...
Wisconsin is insulated from the prediction that House Republicans’ American Health Care Act would cause 14 million people to lose their health insurance, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says. That’s...
View ArticleUPMC signs letter of intent with PinnacleHealth
UPMC and PinnacleHealth, a Harrisburg-based health system, have signed a letter of intent to pursue an affiliation, UPMC said Tuesday. It was also announced Tuesday that PinnacleHealth will acquire...
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How UC Davis Medical School fared in U.S. News & World Report ranking
UC Davis School of Medicine improved its ranking on U.S. News & World Report's annual list of best graduate schools, placing 45th for research and 18th for primary care training among top schools,...
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NanoString looks far and wide to continue hiring spree
NanoString Technologies plans to continue the hiring streak that started when the company went public in 2013, CEO Brad Gray said. NanoString, which provides devices for molecular diagnostics, has more...
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Honolulu contractor buys Maui medical office building from Alexander &...
Alexander & Baldwin Inc. (NYSE: ALEX) has sold its medical office building on Maui to the head of Honolulu general contracting firm Allied Builders System for $3.4 million, a spokesman for A&B...
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Longs Drugs to open another pharmacy at Ala Moana Center
Longs Drugs will add a second pharmacy at Ala Moana Center in Honolulu as part of the Target store being built in part of the old Nordstrom space at the state’s largest shopping mall, a spokeswoman for...
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Four takeaways on the GOP healthcare plan from Obamacare creator Jonathan Gruber
If you ask Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist and one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, the Republican plan to replace Obamacare is like a carnival game — rigged to lose, with prizes only...
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Stanford Health Care slashes more than 100 jobs to save millions
Stanford Health Care will eliminate 168 jobs to save its medical system millions of dollars. The move will save Stanford about $17 million, or a 4 percent reduction, in the budget. With new CEO David...
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UCSF's $275M cancer center set to break ground in Mission Bay next month
The $275 million UC San Francisco Precision Cancer Medicine Building will break ground next month, the latest project approved in the university’s massive Mission Bay expansion. Construction on the...
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Specialty pharmacies fill prescriptions and a niche
Susan Merenstein can remember growing up in her father’s pharmacy, standing on old milk crates to reach the register and eventually working under him as a technician, packaging medication using an old...
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RTI International celebrates milestone for new building in RTP
While heavy winds Wednesday restricted the 100-foot crane from hoisting the final steel beam to the roof of RTI International’s new signature office building in Research Triangle Park as had been...
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Families of kids with autism settle with Providence Health Plan
Five families who sued Providence Health Plan over its denial of coverage for autism therapy have settled their federal class-action suit. U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon today approved the...
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600,000 Washington residents would lose coverage under GOP health plan, state...
After dropping to an uninsured rate of 5.8 percent in 2015 under the Affordable Care Act, a state analysis shows the number of uninsured Washingtonians spiking to 15 percent under the Republicans'...
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Baptist Health laying off hundreds in realignment
Baptist Healthcare System Inc. announced Wednesday it is laying of nearly 170 workers in the Louisville area. A news release said that 288 people would lose their jobs throughout the entirety of the...
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Signature HealthCARE to lay off 215 workers
Signature Healthcare is laying off 215 workers from its Signature HealthCARE at Saint Francis nursing home. The company, which has 142 locations in 11 states, filed an official Worker Adjustment and...
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How Sun Health saved Medicare nearly $15 million
A program operated by Sun Health has saved $14.8 million for Medicare since 2011. The Sun Health Care Transitions program reduced hospital re-admissions for 11,025 Medicare patients to an average of...
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