Losing Money, Some Arkansas Hospitals Face Closure
As many hospitals struggle financially, the Arkansas Department of Human Services has proposed using $60 million of the state’s American Rescue Plan Act to help keep their doors open. read more >
As many hospitals struggle financially, the Arkansas Department of Human Services has proposed using $60 million of the state’s American Rescue Plan Act to help keep their doors open. read more >
The healthcare system plans to expand services to northwest Arkansas. read more >
Through the first five months of this year, Conway Regional Medical Center has a $2.4 million loss. And its financial health is expected to worsen if government and commercial health insurance companies don’t increase their reimbursements for services. read more >
Two doctors and a finance professional get together to found Panacea Financial LLC of Little Rock, which offers personal lending to doctors and doctors in training. It also refinances doctors’ student loans and offers practice financing. read more >
The former operators of Aria Health Group still face the reverberations of a 2018 lawsuit, even though the wrongdoing allegations were dismissed. read more >
National chains are searching for pharmacists in Arkansas, with one offering a $50,000 signing bonus and another reducing store hours because of a shortage of workers. read more >
Arkansas Health Network of Little Rock continued its growth during the pandemic and saved its members $16.8 million in 2020, the latest figures available. read more >
Rex Jones says he wants to learn from executives in the ARHP network what the nonprofit can do for them. read more >
A proposed Medicare rule change should reinforce Arkansas pharmacies in their continuing fight with pharmacy benefit managers over fees. read more >
Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff is overhauling the way it provides cancer services. read more >
One insurance carrier is offering employers in the Little Rock area a virtual health care plan that touts a premium price that’s about 15% lower than traditional benefit plans. read more >
Baxter Regional Medical Center and Highlands Oncology Group officials broke ground on a $16 million cancer treatment center on Aug. 28 with a goal to begin seeing patients in October 2022. read more >
Drug Compounding Company OurPharma LLC of Fayetteville has licenses from 11 states, including Arkansas, and applications in process in more than 10 others to sell pharmaceuticals. read more >
A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit filed by a Little Rock dental network that sued its insurance carrier for denying coverage for business losses suffered as a result of COVID-19, ruling the policy didn’t cover such losses. read more >
In the wake of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s full approval last week of Pfizer’s vaccine for COVID-19, more companies are expected to mandate that their employees be vaccinated. read more >
Walmart Inc. of Bentonville has asked a federal judge to throw out the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against it over allegations that its pharmacists unlawfully dispensed opioids, fueling the national opioid crisis. read more >
Baptist Health of Little Rock reported an eye-popping $115 million in operating income in 2020, thanks to government stimulus funds. read more >
As Arkansas Surgical Hospital in North Little Rock finishes a more than $3 million expansion project adding operating rooms, it is looking for more surgeons. read more >
Conway Regional Health System’s decision to add nearly a dozen doctors last year seems to be paying off as the system continues growing. read more >
Steven Webb knows that turning around the former North Metro Medical Center in Jacksonville is going to be a challenge, but the Unity Health president and CEO is up for it. read more >
