Health Care

Two new state agencies are deep in the process of collecting and assembling data on health care costs deemed critical to the success of the state's 2012 cost containment law, grappling with the level of information commissioners will need to determine appropriate cost growth.

Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) said it will receive about $74,000 from the state to train Heywood Hospital employees in Gardner in suicide prevention techniques.

The recent release of Medicare data on hospital charges by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) was hailed as an unprecedented move toward transparency of hospital costs, with a list of hospital services and their corresponding charges to Medicare provided to the public in a comprehensive report for the first time.

Natick-based Interbit Data, which makes operational efficiency software for health care providers, has expanded its partnership with Marlborough-based Park Place International, it announced.

The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) and UMass Memorial Medical Center will meet for a final round of talks at 2 p.m. today, ahead of a planned strike scheduled to begin Thursday morning.

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Fallon Community Health Plan reported a loss of $200,000 for its first quarter of 2013, attributing much of it to technology investments and operational adjustments.

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The former Marist Retreat Center, the Framingham seminary made vacant after the Marist Fathers of Boston moved out in 2011, has found an interested buyer.