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FTC’s antitrust strategy: Unwind completed mergers and acquisitions
Hospital bond issuance up 215%
Hospitals and other parts of the healthcare sector are putting their toes back into the borrowing waters once again, and like what they are feeling. The healthcare sector sold $18.9 billion in bonds during the first half of 2015, up 76 percent from $10.8 billion sold during the first half of 2014, according to HFA Partners.
Housing Is A Prescription For Better Health
Healthcare lobbies push to include housing as a hospital community benefit
Potential supply sensitive care in NICUs is a growing problem
Potential supply sensitive care in NICUs is a growing problem
Contemplating health care with a focus on research, an eye on reform.
What’s driving the big health insurance mergers?
http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/whats-driving-the-big-health-insurance-mergers/402945/
As with the recent flurry of hospital mergers and acquisitions, the biggest driving force for the current insurance industry mergers is likely the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The New York Times says that although the ACA is bringing insurers more revenue by way of additional customers, greater pricing transparency and government funding cuts have also put more pressure on their profit margins.
WellStar Health System in talks to buy Tenet Healthcare’s five Georgia hospitals
Juno CEO: ‘Can our own T-cells eat a solid tumor? The answer is yes’
Juno CEO Hans Bishop went on CNBC Friday morning to talk about how immunotherapy works at a cellular level, and made it sound even more surreal. “If you ask the question, ‘Can our own T-cells eat a solid tumor?’ the answer is yes,” Bishop said.
California Nurses Association wins organizing vote at big Kaiser hospital in Los Angeles
The Oakland-based California Nurses Association won a big union-organizing vote Thursday night at Kaiser Permanente’s Los Angeles Medical Center, according to the union. The tally was 696 votes for CNA and 305 votes for a rival union, United Nurses Associations of California.
