March 9, 2017
Amidst uncertainty regarding healthcare reform, AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AHS) and Cross Country Healthcare Inc. (NASD: CCRN) — the two largest publicly traded healthcare staffing firms — again reported better than expected revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016 and provided cautiously optimistic guidance looking forward towards 2017.
AMN and Cross Country results are better than expected — again
6 March 2017
Amidst uncertainty regarding healthcare reform, AMN Healthcare and Cross Country Healthcare — the two largest publicly traded healthcare staffing firms — again reported better than expected revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016 and provided cautiously optimistic guidance looking forward towards 2017.... More
CHG Healthcare promotes Byington to new role, names new locum tenens exec
6 March 2017
CHG Healthcare Services, the second-largest US healthcare staffing firm, named Melissa Byington to the new role of group president of CompHealth and Weatherby Healthcare. Lisa Grabl stepped up to replace her as president of the CompHealth locum tenens division.
Healthcare job growth at three-year low in January
6 March 2017
Healthcare gained only 18,000 jobs in January, the slowest monthly increase since January 2014, which marked the onset of the expanded coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act, according to the Health Sector Economic Indicators briefs released by the Altarum Institute’s Center for Sustainable... More
Cross Country CEO takes seat on Volt board
6 March 2017
Volt Information Sciences Inc. (NYSE MKT: VISI) appointed Bill Grubbs, president and CEO of Cross Country Healthcare Inc. (NASD: CCRN), as a board director.
Healthcare IT contingent hiring expected to increase
6 March 2017
Healthcare IT leaders expect to increase contingent IT hiring this year, according to a TEKsystems’ healthcare IT survey. Half of healthcare IT leaders, 50%, plan to increase contingent IT hiring — up from 44% who planned to do so in 2016.
Noncompliant ACA policies permitted for additional year
6 March 2017
Consumers and insurers may temporarily keep for another year coverage that does not meet the minimum standards required by the Affordable Care Act, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight announced.
UK health watchdog calls for greater transparency for agency worker pay
6 March 2017
NHS Improvement, the UK health watchdog, has published figures which reveal that about 100 agency staff are earning more than £200,000 a year for covering staff shortages, while more than 500 doctors take home in excess of £150,000 a year. NHS Improvement has called for more transparency in agency... More
Army taps six firms for physician staffing contract (GovCon Wire)
6 March 2017
Six companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $48 million contract to provide temporary physician staffing services to the US Army, GovCon Wire reports.