Executive exodus continues at HMA
Another executive has left Health Management Associates, the troubled owner of Bayfront Medical Center. Kelly Curry, executive vice president and CFO of the Naples-based company, has resigned. In...
View ArticleNo. 32: Florida Medical Clinic registers double-digit growth
Florida Medical Clinic PA 2012 revenue: $166 million Physicians rule at Florida Medical Clinic, propelling the 13 percent revenue growth last year. “We’ve had double-digit revenue growth year over...
View ArticleNo. 94: Health Integrated managed costs, improves outcomes
Health Integrated Inc. 2012 revenue: $32.1 million Combining health care and cost management centered on vulnerable patients is the backbone of Health Integrated Inc.’s business. The company, based in...
View ArticleBoard certification awarded to 11 lawyers
The Florida Bar recently awarded board certification to 11 Tampa Bay area lawyers. Board certification denotes the organization’s most stringent evaluation of lawyers’ competence and experience in one...
View ArticleNo. 23: Reform puts healthy gains on HealthPlan income statement
HealthPlan Holdings Inc. 2012 revenue: $240 million Health care reform has been – and will continue to be – very good for HealthPlan Holdings Inc. The Tampa company, through its subsidiaries, is a...
View ArticleNo. 68: FedEx business keeps Zirkelbach moving
Zirkelbach Construction Inc. 2012 revenue: $66 million Zirkelbach Construction Inc. in Palmetto had a 74 percent revenue increase last year. The firm, which has an office in South Carolina and Montana,...
View ArticleNo. 72: Merger propels Fowler White
Fowler White Boggs PA 2012 revenue: $59 million Fowler White Boggs PA gained momentum in 2012 in the merger with Atkinson Diner Stone Mankuta & Ploucha, a small but prestigious Fort Lauderdale law...
View ArticleNo. 35: Senior Home Care acquires, expands
Senior Home Care Inc. 2012 revenue: $150 million Senior Home Care Inc. reaches out to the elderly via 30 Florida offices and another 17 in Louisiana through Synergy Home Care. Acquisitions, including...
View ArticleNo. 56: New president named at Sanwa Growers
Sanwa Growers Inc. 2012 revenue: $88.54 million After operating Sanwa Growers Inc. since they founded it in 1981, Tony Leung and Connie Leung tapped Wes Pinkerton as the company’s president in 2012....
View ArticleEnforcement of new patient data security rules to start
Monday is a watershed day for many professionals who work with protected health care information. That’s the day enforcement begins for information security rules regarding vendors, service providers,...
View ArticleSPC awarded $3.5 million in work force grants
St. Petersburg College has won $3.5 million in federal work force grants focused on orthotics, prosthetics and supply chain management training in partnership with local employers. As part of a...
View ArticleMoffitt, physician awarded $8.8 million grant
The National Cancer Institute awarded Dr. Jeffrey Weber, director of the Donald A. Adam Comprehensive Melanoma Research Center of Excellence at Moffitt Cancer Center, and his team an $8.8 million...
View ArticleUniversal Health opens for auction (Video)
Potential bidders toured Universal Health Care Group’s downtown St. Petersburg headquarters today to preview property that will be auctioned Sept. 24 and Sept. 25. About 60 people were in the first...
View Article‘First Lady’ of tax fraud cohort sentenced
A Tampa federal judge sentenced Maurice Larry to eight years and five months in prison for conspiracy to defraud through tax fraud and aggravated identity theft. Two 2010 Chevrolet Camaros, a motor...
View ArticleTGH/Florida Hospital partner for health care delivery
Tampa General Hospital and Florida Hospital’s Tampa Bay Network have agreed to jointly develop new programs and services in the area. The partnership reflects the nationwide trend of provider...
View ArticleYankees pitcher teams up with Evolucia
Lighting company Evolucia and New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera took a shine to the idea of an LED-lighted baseball. At Rivera’s instigation, Sarasota-based Evolucia has developed a regulation...
View ArticleJudge denies acquittal for former WellCare executives
U.S. District Judge James S. Moody Jr. on Wednesday signed orders denying former WellCare Health Plans executives’ motions for acquittal. He also denied their motion to quiz jurors about the...
View ArticleGrand jury investigating three former Universal Health executives
Three former Universal Health Care Group executives are under investigation by a federal grand jury. Sandip Patel, former general counsel and chief administrative officer; Jeff Ludy, vice president of...
View ArticleSmall business health exchange enrollment delayed
Online enrollment in small business health insurance exchanges will be delayed until Nov. 1, according to published reports. The federally created exchanges are for businesses with fewer than 50...
View ArticleFederal judge tosses Florida medical liability reform
A U.S. district judge in Tallahassee decided a new state law’s provision expanding communication allowed for lawyers and insurers representing doctors in medical malpractice cases violates federal law...
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