Health Systems Group

• Ctw Investment Group Calls for Board Accountability Re: Health Systems Billing Practices

Absent Action, CtW Urges VOTE NO on Audit Committee Directors and CFO WASHINGTON, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The CtW Investment Group sent a letter to the Community Health Systems' (NYSE: CYH) board of directors on Friday threatening a Vote No campaign against directors seeking re-election at Community's May 17 shareholder meeting unless the board immediately provides a compelling response to concerns regarding Community's aggressive Medicare billing practices. The Investment Group's concerns were reinforced by the announcement on Friday that Community also received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' OIG on April 8th in connection with an investigation into Community's billing practices. These practices were also the subject of a lawsuit filed by Tenet...

• U.S. Newswire
• April 18, 2011

• Competitive impact statements and proposed consent judgments: UnitedHealth Group Inc. & PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc.,

• FR, March 20, 2006
• Notices
• Antitrust Division

• Babcock & Wilcox and Caesars Entertainment Discuss Employee Wellness Innovations and Outcomes Achieved through Walgreens Take Care Health Systems at National Business Group on Health Conference.

BOSTON -- Employee wellness experts from The Babcock & Wilcox Company (NYSE:BWC) (B&W), Caesars Entertainment and other employers shared insights and ...

• Business Wire
• November 01, 2011

• 61 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. (Bna) 1607, 61 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 42,278 Joseph R. Weber, Appellant, v. American Express Co.; Systems Associates, Inc., D/B/a Sai-Systems Associates, Inc., D/B/a American Express Information Services Company, Health Systems Group, D/B/a the Health Systems Group, D/B/a American Express Health Systems, Appellees., 994 F.2d 513 (8th Cir. 1993)

Mary Anne Sedey, St. Louis, MO, argued, for appellant. Clifford A. Godiner, St. Louis, MO, argued (Richard E. Jaudes, on the brief), for appellees. B...

• Federal Circuits

• Effective Health Systems and Reed Group Agree to Integrate ACOEM and MTUS Guidelines into the BaseLine Workers Compensation Medical Management Platform.

Agreement Establishes Effective Health System's BaseLine Technology as a Single-Source Medical Protocol Resource for UR and Medical Management In Work...

• Business Wire
• November 15, 2011

• Medassets Signs Agreement with University Health Systems-San Antonio for Group Purchasing and Supply Chain Technology Solutions

UHS is pleased to expand upon our group purchasing relationship with MedAssets Supply Chain Systems," stated Francine Crockett, Executive Director, Purchased Resources, University Health System. "With the addition of MedAssets Analytical Systems' supply chain technology and services, we look forward to uncovering new opportunities for cost savings and enhanced operational efficiencies.

• La Prensa; San Antonio, Tex.
• August 06, 2009

• UnitedHealth Group to Merge with PacifiCare Health Systems Inc.

MINNEAPOLIS -- UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH): --Furthers Efforts to Make Health Care Services More Affordable, More Available and Easier To Use For ...

• Business Wire
• July 06, 2005

• Colorado Springs' Memorial Health System's Opponents Square Off As Bids Reviewed

The fight over Memorial Health System's future is shaping up to become a David-and-Goliath battle -- but there's no certainty the little guy will win this time. The battle is pitting some of the nation's largest health care systems against a single, grassroots group that wants to maintain local control of the hospital.

• Colorado Springs Business Journal
• November 25, 2011

• Justice Department Requires Divestitures in Unitedhealth Group's Acquisition of Pacificare Health Systems

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice announced today that it will require UnitedHealth Group Inc. and PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. to divest portions of PacifiCare's commercial health insurance business in Tucson, Arizona and Boulder, Colorado in order to proceed with their merger. The Department will also require United to modify and, after one year, terminate its network access agreement with Blue Shield of California. The Department said that the deal as originally proposed likely would have resulted in higher prices and lower quality commercial health insurance plans. The Department's Antitrust Division filed a civil lawsuit today in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. to block the proposed transaction. At the same time, the Department filed a pr...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 20, 2005

• Health Care Merger Coming?; Systems Seek Partnership with Physicians Group

The four major health care systems in the Milwaukee area are vying to buy or form a partnership with Advanced Healthcare, a physician practice with revenue of more than $200 million a year and approximately 162,000 patients. Advanced Healthcare is the largest independent practice not aligned with a health care system in southeast Wisconsin, and the outcome of the negotiations could bring sweeping changes to the health care market in the Milwaukee area.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• December 07, 2006