Harvard Pilgrim set to launch a lower cost network
Harvard Pilgrim teams with 50 hospitals, 16,500 doctors; Direct challenge to Partners, other top dollar providers
By Robert Weisman
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MARCH 18, 2012
How the Roberts court could save Obama’s health-care reform
By Robert Barnes, Published: March 16
From the inaugural oath do-over to an unprecedented State of the Union throwdown, relations between President Obama and the conservative members of the Supreme Court have had an unusually cantankerous feel.
If it had been up to Obama, after all, John G. Roberts Jr. would not have been holding the Bible at the president’s swearing-in, and Samuel A. Alito Jr. would still have been in his New Jersey judicial chambers rather than in the second row of the House mouthing “not true” during Obama’s 2010 address to the nation. As a senator, Obama voted against the Supreme Court confirmations of both men.
Study: Small-hospital CEOs in Maine earn $230K-$330K — with a $550K exceptionBy Lindsay Tice, Sun Journal Posted March 18, 2012, at 12:49 p.m. Redington-Fairview General Hospital has 25 beds. Located in Skowhegan, a small Somerset County town of about 8,500 people, it runs a busy ER, owns some doctors’ offices and serves as a critical-access hospital for 30,000 people from Skowhegan to the Canadian border. The most seriously sick or injured patients must be sent to larger facilities such as Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. CMMC has 250 beds. Located in one of the largest cities in the state, CMMC serves as a major hospital for 400,000 people throughout six counties. Like Redington-Fairview, it runs a busy ER and owns some doctors’ offices. It also has a sleep center, a cancer center and a heart center. When someone is hurt in a major car accident, gravely ill or injured or having a heart attack, CMMC is one of the few Maine hospitals they’re whisked to by air-rescue service LifeFlight. But in 2010, the CEO of little Redington-Fairview earned more than the head of CMMC, Laird Covey. Redington-Fairview’s Richard Willett also earned more than the CEO of MaineGeneral Medical Center, in Augusta and Waterville, the third-largest hospital in the state. He earned more than the CEOs of Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford, Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport and St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor, all hospitals with more than 100 beds. The heads of St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston and Mercy Hospital in Portland made more than Redington-Fairview’s CEO, but not by much. Willett’s compensation package: nearly $550,000. |
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