Here are seven updates on Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's executive recruitment, cost-cutting goals and service changes reported by Becker's Hospital Review since Jan. 1.
1. Tenet to pay $1.4M to settle medically unnecessary implant suit
Tenet Healthcare and one of its hospitals in Palm Springs, Calif., will pay $1.41 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly charged Medicare for implanting unnecessary cardiac monitors in patients in violation of the False Claims Act.
2. Tenet expands footprint with microhospital in San Antonio
San Antonio-based Baptist Health System, part of Tenet Healthcare, opened a microhospital in San Antonio on Jan. 29 through a joint venture with hospital operator Emerus Holdings.
3. Tenet hospital in California names new CEO
Doctors Hospital of Manteca (Calif.), part of Tenet Healthcare, selected Murali Naidu, MD, as CEO.
4. Tenet exec looks ahead in 2020: Clinician shortages, expanding services & more
Bryan Rogers, CEO of the Southern California hospital group for Tenet Healthcare, spoke with Becker's Hospital Review about the impending clinician shortage, his goals for 2020 and the leadership advice he swears by.
5. Tenet to end inpatient services at Massachusetts hospital
Tenet Healthcare will end inpatient services at its 160-bed Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, Mass.
6. Tenet names CEO of Conifer Health Solutions
Tenet Healthcare named Joseph F. Eazor president and CEO of its Conifer Health Solutions revenue cycle subsidiary.
7. Tenet on track to meet $450M cost-cutting goal this year, CEO says
Tenet Healthcare improved operational efficiencies last year, cutting $300 million in expenses, its CEO Ron Rittenmyer said during a presentation at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.