Verity Health System Enters into Asset Purchase Agreement with Santa Clara County Santa Clara County has entered into an agreement to acquire O’Connor Hospital in San Jose, Calif., and Saint Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy, Calif., for $235 million Verity Health continues to actively seek potential buyers for its other hospitals All Verity Health hospitals continue to provide high-quality care to patients throughout the Chapter 11 process Verity Health System of California, Inc. (“Verity Health”), a nonprofit healthcare system, today filed a motion in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles seeking bankruptcy court approval of a procedure to obtain bids ... October 5, 2018 Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
Medical staff prevails in legal battle over medical staff self-governance By Tina Tedesco Tulare, California is a small town in the Central Valley best known as the milk producing capital of America. More than half of its 60,000 residents are enrolled in Medi-Cal and served by a small, 108-bed health care district hospital – Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC) – with a separate medical staff of about 175 physicians. Two years ago, this small agricultural community became ground zero in a high-profile battle testing the legal scope of a hospital medical staff’s independence and right to be self-governing. Fundamentally, the question ... September 12, 2018 Advocacy, General 0 0 Comment Read More »
More than $40 million raised for fight over California dialysis profits and patients p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 23.0px; font: 12.0px Montserrat; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px; line-height: 25.0px; font: 12.0px Montserrat; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px; line-height: 25.0px; font: 12.0px Montserrat; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 12.0px Montserrat; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff} p.p5 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 25.0px; font: 12.0px Montserrat; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff} span.s1 {font-kerning: ... August 30, 2018 Public Health dialysis 0 0 Comment Read More »
Doctor, hospital groups organize to oppose single-payer in California A group of influential, deep-pocketed business and health care organizations that have long helped shape the legislative agenda in California have joined forces to oppose any future effort to craft a universal, single-payer health care system for the nation’s largest state. The main focus of the coalition, called “Californians against the costly disruption of our health care,” is to kill any single-payer health care bill in the state Legislature, said Ned Wigglesworth, a political strategist for the coalition. Read More... August 28, 2018 Insurance single payer 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMA/AMA responding to proposed Medicare payment rule On July 12, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and MACRA Quality Payment Program (QPP) rule. This is the first year that CMS is combining the Medicare fee schedule and QPP rules. There are a number of positive elements in the proposed rule. These include: New payments for physician services that are not part of a face to face office visit (virtual check-ins, remote consults of patient videos and photographs, and online consultations with other physicians) ... August 7, 2018 Advocacy, Medicare 0 0 Comment Read More »
