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Facebook challenge started to cover Jolly Holiday Lights losses due to flooding

  Watch this challenge video with Eric Crowell, Ed Brown and Bob Ritz. >>>   A power outage and flooding, which shut down the Jolly Holiday Lights tour for the rest of the season, created…
By ANNE CAROTHERS | Dec 15, 2015
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Momentum grows for overturning ‘Cadillac tax’

There is growing momentum in Congress for delaying the Affordable Care Act’s “Cadillac tax” and more evidence that the 40 percent tax on high-cost health insurance plans will hit a sizable number of businesses, the Washington …
By BPC Staff | Dec 11, 2015
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Insurer donates $350,000 for Methodist trauma center expansion

Professional Solutions Insurance Co. has promised to give $350,000 to support the expansion and renovation of the William C. Knapp Emergency Department and Trauma Center at Iowa Methodist Medical Center and Blank Children’s Hospital. The Clive-based insurer’s …
By BPC Staff | Dec 9, 2015
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U.S. health care jobs to grow most in next decade

Health care occupations and industries are expected to have the fastest employment growth and to add the most jobs between 2014 and 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. More people in the …
By BPC Staff | Dec 8, 2015
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Capital Orthopaedics hires Smith as operations VP

Capital Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine P.C. has hired Ryan Smith as vice president of operations, effective in January. Smith is currently a hospital administrator and regional operations administrator with Mayo Clinic Health System, where he…
By BPC Staff | Dec 8, 2015
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Medicaid to maintain provider pay for 3 months

Iowa health care providers will continue to be paid fully for treating Medicaid patients for the first three months of 2016, whether or not they have signed contracts with new managed care companies, Gov. Terry …
By BPC Staff | Dec 8, 2015
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Three large health systems sign on to Iowa Medicaid plan

Three of Iowa’s biggest hospital-and-clinic systems have signed contracts to provide care to patients who will be enrolled in new Medicaid managed-care programs, Gov. Terry Branstad’s office announced Thursday. UnityPoint Health, the University of Iowa …
By BPC Staff | Dec 4, 2015
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UnitedHealth CEO defends possible exit from Obamacare insurance exchanges

The CEO of UnitedHealth Group Inc. today defended the company’s possible exit from the Obamacare health insurance exchanges in 2017, citing losses on health plans he said were designed to succeed, Reuters reported.


CEO Stephen…
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Dec 1, 2015
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Mercy to open new occupational health clinic

Mercy Medical Center – Des Moines will open a new facility for occupational health services on Dec. 1 at 1055 Jordan Creek Parkway in West Des Moines. Mercy Occupational Health will provide comprehensive services for …
By BPC Staff | Nov 24, 2015
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Mercy Cancer Center receives accreditation

The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons has granted three-year accreditation with commendation to the cancer program at Mercy Cancer Center. To earn voluntary accreditation, a cancer program must meet or exceed …
By BPC Staff | Nov 23, 2015