MBF Healthcare Partners, the Coral Gables investment firm, issued a terse announcement Wednesday that it was backing out of a deal announced last week to purchase Universal Health Care Group, a St. Petersburg company.
After a testy discussion, the board of the Jackson Health System approved by a vote of 4-2 a global agreement intended to resolve several major tensions between management and SEIU Local 1991.
Legislators heard details of a Georgetown study that says Medicaid expansion under Obamacare could save the state money rather than be the huge drain that Gov. Rick Scott fears.
Virtually all of the 15,000 employees of Baptist Health South Florida are getting a $1,000 St. Valentine’s Day gift to make up for losses in take-home pay caused by increased taxes, the hospital system announced Tuesday.
MBF Healthcare Partners, the Coral Gables investment firm led by Miguel “Mike” Fernandez, announced Wednesday it has entered into a Letter of Agreement to purchase certain assets of Universal Health Care Group, a St. Petersburg company.
South Florida hospital leaders fear state cuts added to billions in federal cuts could cause huge problems ahead.
Jackson’s CEO and board chair fired off emails to county’s political leaders about a potential problem with UM. Dean replies he’s committed to program at Jackson.
Biscayne Pharmaceuticals, a company that uses the discoveries of Miami Nobel Prize-winner Andrew Schally, announced it has received $1.5 million in financing to develop growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) drugs.
Jackson Health System has asked the state for hearings, alleging that the license of Kendall Regional’s trauma center was granted illegally and should be revoked.
Jackson and its unions reached a wide-ranging deal Tuesday that settled a federal lawsuit and stopped the possible out-sourcing of the main hospital’s adult ER unit.
The chair of the UM faculty senate said in a Monday email that a “large number” of faculty have signed petition objecting to leadership of medical school.
Two groups of Miami-Dade doctors and Walgreens received federal approval Thursday to form new accountable care organizations.
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues will hold an open meeting in Miami beginning Monday on the tough issue of whether children should be used in attempts to develop an anthrax vaccine.
Jack Lord “stepped down” last week as the No. 2 executive at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, but is he really leaving UM? That’s unclear a week after the announcement.
Physician Phillip Frost started his entrepreneurial career by inventing a small skin biopsy device -- and wound up a billionaire. Along the way, he and his wife became major philanthropists.
Faced with a judge’s order that it pay for a special treatment for autistic children covered by Medicaid, the state seeks to have the ruling overturned.
UM announced the chief operating officer is stepping down at the medical school as faculty continue to express anger about restructuring and layoffs.
The state’s largest health insurer takes a new concept into Broward County as it works to use coordinated care to lower costs and increase quality.
A new survey of Medicare data shows a huge difference in whether senior citizens have surgery based on geography.
OPKO Health, the Miami healthcare company, announced Wednesday that it’s expanding its growing Latin American operations with the purchase of a Brazilian company, Silcon Comércio, Importacao E Exportacao de Produtos Farmaceuticos e Cosmeticos Ltda.
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