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Specialty pharmacy to open in Wichita

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | June 22 at 12:07 a.m.

Home health care product and service provider Apria Healthcare Group will open its first infusion and injectable specialty pharmacy in Wichita on Monday.

Goal of center for simulated training: better health care

BY BRENT D. WISTROM, The Wichita Eagle | June 18 at 9:38 p.m.

Every day, patients lie on operating tables not knowing if the person about to cut them open has done it before.

Business health coalition wins grant

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | June 14 at 12:07 a.m.

The Wichita Business Coalition on Health Care wants to take a portion of its work and expand it across the state.

Change in law lures Comfort Dental franchise

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | June 10 at 12:07 a.m.

A Colorado dental franchisor is making plans to expand in Kansas in the next year after a change in the state's dental practice laws.

Biotech drugmakers brace for generics

BY BRUCE JAPSEN, Chicago Tribune | May 27 at 7:16 a.m.

CHICAGO — In 2001, Abbott Laboratories spent nearly $7 billion on the biggest acquisition in the company's 123-year history, primarily to access one drug, Humira.

Study: Health care costs to rise 8.5%

BY RUSS BRITT, Marketwatch | May 19 at 12:07 a.m.

LOS ANGELES — Employers can expect to see an acceleration in health care cost increases in 2012, with expenses rising 8.5 percent next year, according to a study released Wednesday from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Doctor shortage predicted

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | May 1 at 10:27 a.m.

Despite a surge in the expansion of and building new medical schools, two national reports say the country is heading for a physician shortage.

Health care apps raise issues of liability

BY JANE M. VON BERGEN, Philadelphia Inquirer | May 1 at 12:08 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA — The airline passenger was in deep trouble — not breathing, no heartbeat— when a fellow passenger, Raina Merchant, then a resident in emergency medicine, tried to save his life.

Changes could affect 47 workers at Wesley

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | April 28 at 12:07 a.m.

In a push for efficiency and adaptation to electronic medical records, Wesley Medical Center is making some major changes that will affect its medical transcriptionists and some employees in its health information management department.

Consultant: Marketing to seniors is different

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | April 13 at 12:07 a.m.

One in three Americans is 50 or older, and that demographic controls more than three-quarters of the nation's wealth.

Execs: Medicare questions remain

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | April 7 at 12:07 a.m.

Physician practice officials say proposed new rules aimed at coordinating better care for Medicare patients through accountable care organizations, or ACOs, is a start to better understanding such organizations.

Halstead Hospital owner hopeful

Associated Press | April 5 at 12:07 a.m.

HALSTEAD — Five years after he bought the Halstead Hospital in south-central Kansas, a New York businessman says he still hopes to bring the facility back to life.

Cancer care center returns to Wichita

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | April 4 at 10:37 a.m.

A Salina-based oncology practice has re-established its physical presence in Wichita and wants to increase the number of cancer specialists staffing it.

HCA to acquire Galichia Heart in 2nd quarter

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | April 1 at 12:06 a.m.

The chief executive of Galichia Heart Hospital said Thursday that the physician-owned hospital expects to be acquired by HCA in the second quarter.

Aetna sues doctors over pricey bills

BY PETER WALDMAN, Bloomberg News | March 25 at 12:07 a.m.

Aetna is suing six New Jersey doctors over medical bills it calls "unconscionable," including $56,980 for a bedside consultation and $59,490 for an ultrasound that typically costs $74.

Legend plans larger west-side senior complex

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | March 24 at 12:08 a.m.

Legend Senior Living has changed its plans for a new west Wichita location and will build an even bigger senior living complex at a different address.

Medicare bid contracts disturb local suppliers

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | March 30 at 4:21 p.m.

A new program by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services set to roll out in the Wichita area could have a dramatic effect on local providers of hospital beds, wheelchairs and other medical equipment to homebound patients.

New hospital to open in Ark City

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | March 13 at 12:56 a.m.

ARKANSAS CITY — For nearly a year, Steve Perkins' office has been in a peculiar setting. His third-floor office at South Central Kansas Medical Center occupies what was originally the delivery room for babies at the 60-year-old building.

Wesley charity care costs rise

BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle | March 11 at 7:42 a.m.

Wesley Medical Center's charity care costs and bad debt increased $15 million in 2010.

HCA finds healthy market for its IPO

BY TALI ARBEL AND TOM Murphy, Associated Press | March 11 at 12:06 a.m.

NEW YORK — Hospital operator HCA Holdings's record-setting return to the New York Stock Exchange is expected to encourage more private equity firms to look to public markets for a return on their investments.

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