Health Care

Though a merger with Boston-based Partners HealthCare is not imminent, Emerson Hospital CEO Christine Schuster said hospital officials are “thrilled” Partners has the option to acquire Emerson under a deal between the Boston-based health care system and Atty. Gen. Martha Coakley. The deal is the result of a three-year investigation Partners was subjected to as it attempted to acquire South Shore Hospital in Weymouth and its physician group, Harbor Medical Associates, and Hallmark HealthCare's hospitals in Melrose and Wakefield.

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Worcester-based Reliant Medical Group, an affiliate of Atrius Health, announced yesterday that it has acquired Chadwick Medical Associates of Worcester.

Most MetroWest-area hospitals were profitable in fiscal 2013, but profits faltered considerably at most hospitals, year over year, according to a report issued last week by the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA). CHIA released the financial information in its 2013 Massachusetts Acute Hospital Financial Performance Report, the first such report by the agency, which is tasked with monitoring health care spending under the state's 2012 health care cost containment law.

Two physicians from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (UMMC) have been selected to lead the Massachusetts Medical Society for the 2014-2015 year.

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Increased access to “treatment on demand” for addicts, automatic enrollment of all prescribers and pharmacies in the state's prescription monitoring program, and greater access to antidotes to treat opiate addiction are among the ideas backed by doctors Tuesday as policymakers consider ways to address addiction problems.

Massachusetts has scrapped its hopes for a totally customized state-based health exchange under the Affordable Care Act, and will instead purchase an “off the shelf” solution that can be installed by the fall with the possibility of joining the federal exchange looming as a fallback if all else fails.