Missouri health insurers to pay rebates

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Companies to pay up to $65 million in consumer rebates to businesses and individuals

May 27, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: New health rules may mean rebates for some insured
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Mercy in talks to buy Jefferson Regional Medical Center

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Chesterfield-based Mercy Health pursues exclusive negotiations with hospital in Crystal City.

May 10, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Hospital sale takes on deeper meaning

By Jim Doyle jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Mercy's plan for Arkansas health center sparks resignation of board members, concerns about poor.

May 05, 2012 | 12:10 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Children's Hospital exec stays focused on kids, not money

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Five questions with Dr. F. Sessions Cole, chief medical officer at St. Louis Children's Hospital

May 04, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Ascension Health's ties to embattled debt collector

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Edmundson-based Ascension is an investor and key customer of embattled debt collector.

Apr 27, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: Ascension Health plans $2 billion Cayman 'health city' project

Ascension Health plans $2 billion Cayman 'health city' project

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Edmundson-based nonprofit teams with Indian hospital firm to build for- profit "health city" offshore.

Apr 24, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: Ascension to build $2 billion "health city" in Caymans
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Ascension to build $2 billion "health city" in Caymans

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Edmundson-based Catholic health care system partners with Indian hospital group

Apr 10, 2012 | 5:16 pm | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: Ascension Health to buy California hospitals
• Related: Nonprofit hospitals' huge tax breaks under increasing scrutiny
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Express Scripts-Walgreen battle speaks to merger fears

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Will the merger of Express Scripts and Medco help or hurt prescription drug consumers?

Apr 07, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Express Scripts deal creates national giant

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

FTC green lights Express Scripts' acquisition of Medco, leaving competitors worried

Apr 03, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Indicted executive at Chesterfield medical business lived a life of luxury

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Morris craved extreme wealth and status that was always beyond his reach, his relatives say.

Apr 02, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: Physician says Chesterfield firm wrongly forced him out
• Related: Man accused of embezzling from Chesterfield company is taken into custody
• Related: Feds: Chesterfield company's CEO claimed to be decorated war vet, embezzled millions
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• Related: Chesterfield physician group faces tax issues
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Drugstores sue to block Express Scripts deal

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Chain drug stores and community pharmacies seek to enjoin Express Scripts-Medco merger

Mar 29, 2012 | 11:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Express Scripts, Medco confident of merger approval

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Consumer groups, supermarkets and pharmacists say consumers will lose in $29 billion merger

Mar 29, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Wash U leads landmark Alzheimer's drug trials

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

School of Medicine teams up with 10 drug makers and research centers on three continents.

Mar 26, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: Business digest: Wash U. to direct clinical trials of Alzheimer's drug
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Express Scripts executives will reap bonuses if merger approved

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Four executives will receive one-time performance awards if Medco acquisition moves forward.

Mar 23, 2012 | 12:30 pm | (Loading… ) comments.

Physician says Chesterfield firm wrongly forced him out

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Urologist says firm used bogus sexual harassment allegations to steal his patients

Mar 17, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: Feds: Chesterfield company's CEO claimed to be decorated war vet, embezzled millions

Missouri audit blasts state-sponsored insurer

BY VIRGINIA YOUNG • vyoung@post-dispatch.com > 573-635-6178 AND JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Missouri state auditor criticizes spending and bonuses at publicly controlled workers' comp firm

Feb 28, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Clayton-based Centene wins Missouri Medicaid contract

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372 and VIRGINIA YOUNG • vyoung@post-dispatch.com > 573-635-6178

Centene and two other companies will manage care for 427,000 beneficiaries across Missouri

Feb 22, 2012 | 8:49 am | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: Clayton-based Centene reaps millions cutting government health costs
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• Related: Centene expects greater revenue, profits in 2012
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Express Scripts-Medco merger under fire

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

The dialogue heats up as Federal Trade Commission weighs the Express Scripts-Medco merger

Feb 21, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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FDA gives Mobius green light to start local production

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

St. Louis-based Mobius Therapeutics to use local supply chain for new chemical compound for eye surgeries

Feb 09, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Mercy Hospital settles Medicare fraud allegations for $365,000

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

The hospital in Creve Coeur agrees to pay $365,000 to settle allegations of improper billing

Feb 08, 2012 | 3:30 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Five questions: CEO Michael Motte seeks to connect with St. Alexius patients

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

The psychiatric ward of the old Alexian Brothers Hospital surfaced in the national limelight in 1949 as having conducted an exorcism on a 13-year-old boy — an event that later inspired a best-selling novel and Hollywood movie.

Feb 03, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Insurance deal ends uncertainty for patients at St. Louis University, Des Peres hospitals

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

A new contract reached with HealthLink and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri.

Feb 02, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: Tenet Healthcare cuts deal with Illinois insurer as Missouri talks sputter
• Related: Two St. Louis-area hospitals, insurer begin negotiations
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How a St. Louis financier landed on SEC radar

BY LISA BROWN • lbrown@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8127 AND JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

B. Douglas Morriss has little use for accounting constraints or regulations designed to protect investors.

Jan 28, 2012 | 1:45 pm | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: Federal court's order freezes Clayton-based financier's assets
• Related: SEC accuses Clayton-based financier of defrauding investors

Federal court's order freezes Clayton-based financier's assets

BY LISA BROWN • lbrown@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8127 AND JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372

Order freezes Morriss' personal and corporate assets, along with his family's trust company, Morriss Holdings, LLC.

Jan 19, 2012 | 2:45 am | (Loading… ) comments.

• Related: SEC accuses Clayton-based financier of defrauding investors

SEC accuses Clayton-based financier of defrauding investors

BY JIM DOYLE • jdoyle@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8372 AND LISA BROWN • lbrown@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8127

Without a doubt, B. Douglas Morriss knows how to spend money. The only question: Whose money?

Jan 18, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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