St. Joseph Medical Center cannot appeal an order that required it to disclose the names and addresses of hundreds of former patients who were notified they might have received unnecessary stents, the Court of Special Appeals held Monday.

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Catholic Health Initiatives will pay $4.9 million to settle claims by the U.S. Justice Department arising out of St. Joseph Medical Center’s two-year practice of admitting patients unnecessarily.

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St. Joseph Medical Center officially made a fresh start over the weekend after a long-drawn out acquisitions process that wrapped up when officials finalized the sale of its assets to the University of Maryland Medical System.

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Talks between state and federal health officials about changing hospital reimbursement rates under Maryland’s unique Medicare waiver have emerged as a central factor in the University of Maryland Medical System’s ongoing bid to acquire the struggling St. Joseph Medical Center.

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A Baltimore county judge has rejected former St. Joseph Medical Center Chief Cardiologist Mark G. Midei’s bid to get his Maryland medical license back. The State Board of Physicians revoked Midei’s license in July after concluding he had engaged in ...

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The ethical and religious directives that define Catholic-based health care were an integral part of the exclusive negotiation agreement struck last week between St. Joseph Medical Center and the favored buyer, University of Maryland Medical System, officials of both hospitals ...

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Justices question health care law In three days of oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Obama administration’s health-care reform law, the split over the constitutionality of the individual mandate was very much in evidence as the justices of the Supreme ...

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The prospective match between the University of Maryland Medical System and St. Joseph Medical Center appears to be a good one for many reasons. UMMS can bring financial stability, credibility, a network of facilities and physicians, economies of scale and ...

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After a whirlwind series of meetings and fact-finding sessions, the board of directors at St. Joseph Medical Center has identified and recommended a buyer for the beleaguered hospital to Catholic Health Initiatives, the current owner. The 263-bed community hospital in ...

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City swears in Rawlings-Blake Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake delivers her inaugural address Tuesday as Baltimore mayor’s after being elected to a full four-year term in November. The former City Council president has served as mayor since February 2010, when she replaced Sheila ...

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