Monthly Archives: November 2015
What is Interim Executive Services anyway?
Cartoon – Insurance Companies
Is the sky the limit for healthcare M&A?
http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/is-the-sky-the-limit-for-healthcare-ma/409298/
- Healthcare ranks as the top industry for U.S. targeted M&A, with the highest annual volume on record, $454.9 billion, this year, according to a new report from Dealogic.
The Pre-existing Condition: Innovative Solutions to America’s Thorniest Healthcare Challenge
Many Say High Deductibles Make Their Health Law Insurance All but Useless
Health plan CEOs: Prescription drugs pose major cost concerns
Pat Richards of SelectHealth and John Bennett of Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan discuss trends, solutions
Cartoon – Competition
‘I wouldn’t put much faith into Senator Bludgeon’s promise to immediately begin investigating the competition. After all, it takes 30 days just to make instant coffee in the Senate.’
FTC seeks to block West Virginia hospital merger
Morristown hospital tax settlement figures to be first of many in the state
Atlantic Health will make the initial payment of $10 million, then pay another $5.5 million in penalties and interest in annual payments through the year 2025 to settle the years in dispute, 2006 to 2015. The system also will begin making annual tax payments on 24 percent of the property, which was agreed to be valued at $40 million, through 2025. That will mean additional payments of $1.05 million a year for 10 years — making the total eventual tax payment more than $25 million.
HENRY KOTULA 