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Mashup Score: 1Jefferson Health, Lehigh Valley Health Network sign definitive agreement for $14B merger - 5 day(s) ago
Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health and Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) are one step closer to consummating a $14 billion merger announced late last year.
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Mashup Score: 4
To boost domestic medical supply manufacturing, the Biden administration is hiking up tariffs on syringes, needles, medical and surgical gloves and personal protective equipment from China. | To boost domestic medical supply manufacturing, the Biden administration is hiking up tariffs on syringes, needles, medical and surgical gloves and personal protective equipment from China.
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Mashup Score: 1Ascension reports systems, clinical operations disrupted amid apparent 'cybersecurity event' - 5 day(s) ago
Ascension disclosed Wednesday that it has detected “unusual activity” on some of its technology networks that it believes “is due to a cybersecurity event.” | The Catholic health giant said it detected “unusual activity” Wednesday and “immediately” activated remediation processes, including hiring a third-party cybersecurity firm.
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A leading senator is pushing UnitedHealth Group for more answers on the Change Healthcare cyberattack that caused significant disruption across the industry. | A leading senator is pushing UnitedHealth Group for more answers on the Change Healthcare cyberattack that caused significant disruption across the industry.
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Mashup Score: 0Providence CEO, president Rod Hochman to retire at year-end - 5 day(s) ago
Providence President and CEO Rod Hochman, M.D., has announced plans to retire at the end of the year, capping off a 45-year healthcare career and 17 years with the major Catholic health system. | The physician executive headed the large Catholic nonprofit through a period of substantial growth and a pandemic. The system’s board has kicked off its process to name his successor.
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Mashup Score: 2House Energy and Commerce Committee presents own 2-year telehealth extension, with more rural health wins - 5 day(s) ago
The Energy and Commerce Committee released telehealth extension legislation today that will be voted on during a health subcommittee markup on Thursday. | The House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee will hold a markup May 16 that includes a different two-year telehealth extension proposal than the Ways and Means Committee passed last week.
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Kaiser Permanente kicked off 2024 with $935 million of operating income (3.4% operating margin) and more than $2.7 billion of net income when excluding a one-time, $4.6 billion net asset gain from | The integrated nonprofit’s operations more than quadrupled the return of last year’s first quarter, though the organization said its performance still lags pre-pandemic numbers.
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Mashup Score: 0UPMC pays $38M to settle 12-year-old whistleblower case - 6 day(s) ago
UPMC is putting a 12-year-old False Claims Act suit to bed with a $38 million settlement payment. | Plaintiffs had alleged that the nonprofit system was overcompensating neurosurgeons to refer patients to its facilities for procedures. A spokesperson for UPC said the organization was “pleased” to resolve the case believed to be one of the highest payouts for a False Claims case not taken up by the government.
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Mashup Score: 3
The gap between insurance plans and Medicare’s payments to hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services widened over the course of just a couple of years, a new study from RAND Corporation | A new report from RAND Corporation highlighted just how much more employers and private insurers are paying hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services.
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Mashup Score: 3Health tech startup Dandelion Health launches data library to advance insights into GLP-1 drugs - 6 day(s) ago
The growing popularity of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) drugs opens up massive opportunities for biopharma companies, life sciences firms and researchers and represents a massive shift in how hea | Dandelion Health developed a GLP-1 data library as a multimodal real-world clinical data set built specifically to surface insights and opportunities related to the GLP-1 receptor agonist drug class.
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