LAS VEGAS—University Medical Center officials are expected to present new contracts with medical groups and health care providers that would save Clark County about $1.3 million per year.
The hospital has been renegotiating the contracts to help ease its $39 million in debt.
Hospital officials say the new contracts would save the hospital $9.5 million over the lives of the contracts, between 4 percent and 20 percent on each arrangement.
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MinuteClinic, a provider of retail health care located inside select CVS/pharmacy stores in Florida, has become a participating provider in the network of
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More than 4 million Blue Cross health care members now have in-network access to MinuteClinic.
There are more than 11 MinuteClinic health care centers in the Orlando area. MinuteClinic retail locations are open seven days a week including weekday evening hours. No appointment is necessary.
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“The decision is largely based on the fact our direct, contracted relationship with those two organizations have us paying rates for services that are significantly higher than our network norm for similar types of services,” said Jim Albano, Horizon’s vice president of health-care services. “Hospitals costs are such a huge portion of total medical costs and they have a profound impact on premium costs. … It just Read the rest of this entry »

In the wide and varied family of the thousands and thousands of funds out there, the exchange-traded fund is one of the
more consumer-friendly ones.
Unlike mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, behave more like stocks. You can buy
into an ETF at any time, and sell it whenever you feel like it. And like a stock, an ETF’s value can rise and fall–depending
on what the ETF is invested in.What do Read the rest of this entry »

LAS VEGAS—University Medical Center officials are expected to present new contracts with medical groups and health care providers that would save Clark County about $1.3 million per year.
The hospital has been renegotiating the contracts to help ease its $39 million in debt.
Hospital officials say the new contracts would save the hospital $9.5 million over the lives of the contracts, between 4 percent and 20 percent on each arrangement.
Read the rest of this entry »

LAS VEGAS—University Medical Center officials are expected to present new contracts with medical groups and health care providers that would save Clark County about $1.3 million per year.
The hospital has been renegotiating the contracts to help ease its $39 million in debt.
Hospital officials say the new contracts would save the hospital $9.5 million over the lives of the contracts, between 4 percent and 20 percent on each arrangement.
Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING — A 21-year-old woman in central China has been infected by the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country’s eighth reported case this year, the Health Ministry said.
The woman, a farmer in the central province of Hunan, fell ill Jan. 23 after handling poultry that died from the virus, the ministry said on its Web site. She was in stable condition, it said.
Five of the eight cases of H5N1 reported this year were fatal. The disease is hard Read the rest of this entry »

(RTTNews) - 
Nightingale Informatix Corp. (NGH.V:
) said it has been selected to provide its OntarioMD Certified ASP web-based Nightingale On Demand EMR solution to the three core urban Family Health Organizations in London, Ontario. The clinics are associated with London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care in London, Ontario along with several of their community family practice partners. Nightingale Read the rest of this entry »

Assura exchanges contracts with Medical Centre Developments for sale of six non-core properties for GBP 17.6 Mln – Quick Facts
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Monday, Assura Group Ltd (AGR.L:
) said it exchanged contracts with Medical Centre Developments Ltd. and its sister company, Medical Centres Scotland Ltd., for the sale of six non-core properties from its medical property portfolio for GBP 17.6 million. The transaction Read the rest of this entry »

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“The decision is largely based on the fact our direct, contracted relationship with those two organizations have us paying rates for services that are significantly higher than our network norm for similar types of services,” said Jim Albano, Horizon’s vice president of health-care services. “Hospitals costs are such a huge portion of total medical costs and they have a profound impact on premium costs. … It just Read the rest of this entry »