05/21/12
The assessment Michigan drivers pay for medical benefits to those severely injured in vehicle accidents is going up by $30 a year on July 1. Proponents of two bills to change Michigan's no-fault insurance law doubtless hope that will be an incentive for legislators to act.
HEALTH CARE EXTRA
05/14/12
• Henry Ford Health System radiation oncology department chair Benjamin Movsas, M.D., has been inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology. About 10 percent of ACR members receive this distinction, based on their research, teaching and clinical practices. The ACR is a Reston, Va.-based nonprofit that has more than 34,000 physicians around the country.
05/14/12
How much is public safety worth? An additional 9 mills of property taxes?
05/14/12
The John D. Dingell Veterans Administration Medical Center in Detroit is hiring 18 mental health professionals and two clerical staff as part of a nationwide effort to cut the time it takes to provide initial counseling services to veterans mostly returning home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
HEALTH CARE EXTRA
05/13/12
Ford Motor Co. began offering adult immunizations directly to its workforce three years ago when it contracted with an outside vendor to set up clinics at its facilities.
05/11/12
Henry Ford Health System in Detroit has terminated its patient food service and retail food contract with Aramark Healthcare at all five of its hospitals, effective June 30, Aramark said in an April 25 letter to the Michigan Workforce Development Agency.
05/10/12
More than 1 million people in Michigan have received robocalls this year from a California company that says it's selling discount health policies on behalf of Detroit-based HMO Total Health Care.
05/07/12
Novi-based Trinity Health-Michigan has signed a 31/2-year contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to develop a coordinated approach to managing patient care and create quality measurements that will lead to a performance-based reimbursement contract by 2016.
05/07/12
Poor stock market performance, rising expenses and the cost of charity care led to drops in net income for five of Southeast Michigan's six hospital-based systems in 2011.
05/04/12
CHEBOYGAN (AP) — Flint-based McLaren Health Care Corp. is changing the name of the former Cheboygan Memorial Hospital as it prepares to restore some services there.
05/04/12
Not many hospitals seek to spend money on equipment and services that guarantee fewer patients, procedures and dollars.
05/04/12
Nashville-based Vanguard Health Systems Inc., parent company of the Detroit Medical Center, posted stockholder net income of $44 million or 58 cents a share for the fiscal third quarter, compared with net income of $2.8 million or 6 cents for the prior-year period.
05/04/12
Federal authorities charged 107 people with Medicare fraud in a multistate operation including the Detroit area, officials in Washington announced. The alleged schemes involved about $452 million in false billing.
05/03/12
Novi-based Trinity Health-Michigan has signed a 3 1/2-year contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to develop a coordinated approach to managing patient care and create quality measurements that will lead to a performance-based reimbursement contract sometime before 2016.
05/03/12
Rockwell Medical Technologies Inc., a Wixom-based biopharmaceutical research and development company, reported a sharp increase in its net loss in the first quarter.
05/02/12
Great Lakes Caring, a Jackson-based home health and hospice agency, is expected to hire 95 nurses and therapists in Michigan and 70 in Indiana and Ohio over the next several months to bring this year's total to 325 new employees, CEO William Deary said.
05/01/12
The Michigan House Health Policy Committee will hold a hearing at 9 a.m. ThursdayMay 3 to discuss the state’s certificate-of-need regulatory process for approving new hospitals, medical services and equipment.
05/01/12
Ten community health centers in Michigan, including four in Southeast Michigan, will receive $19.6 million in capital grants for construction from the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
05/01/12
A new and improved Community Health and Social Services health center will hold a tour and ribbon-cutting ceremony noon Wednesday with Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and several other health care executives.
04/30/12
The John D. Dingell Veterans Administration Medical Center in Detroit has opened a resource and referral center at Piquette Square that will offer veterans case management, substance-abuse treatment, community referrals, housing placement, triage, transportation, showers, laundry facilities, a computer lab, clothing and ready-to-eat meals.
05/07/12
Crain's Detroit Business is seeking nominations for Health Care Heroes, a special report on health care professionals that will run in the Sept. 10 issue.
05/03/12
Phil Incarnati hasn't needed a PowerPoint presentation or slew of executive assistants to sell his affiliation proposals to any of the 10 hospitals or medical groups that have joined nonprofit McLaren Health Care Corp. over the past 22 years. Data and personal salesmanship have closed the deals.
04/30/12
Recent Supreme Court oral arguments have left many wondering about the fate of the Affordable Care Act. If the ACA does not remain in effect -- whether the result of Supreme Court decisions or the political process -- employers need to understand what might happen next. (Hint: It won't be pretty.)
04/30/12
McLaren Health Care Corp. is putting on a full-court press with Michigan legislators to win support for its proposal to build a $308 million hospital in Oakland County's Independence Township.
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