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Employers in the Bay Area are finding it difficult to get good and qualified people specialized skills in growing industries like biotechnology and accounting for employment. The shortage has aroused for several number of professionals like accountants, project managers, bankers, pharmacists, chief finance officers, human-resource managers, and others.

PHOTODISC: ONE SHOT AT A GOOD IMPRESSION SEATTLE - By 2000 Mark Torrance pictures half of PhotoDisc Inc.'s revenues coming from its Internet site. That's significant when you take into [...]

Visionaries Tell Their Stories of How They Are Making Money On The Internet. PHOTODISC: ONE SHOT AT A GOOD IMPRESSION SEATTLE - By 2000 Mark Torrance pictures half of PhotoDisc [...]

'The small, independent community hospital can't survive on its own' The brilliant red, blue and yellow signs dotting light poles and sign posts throughout Castro Valley make a simple plea: [...]

'We are bracing for failures, and they will be profound' Kaiser Permanente's new Fremont hospital rises from the middle of its sprawling 25-acre medical campus, a gleaming beige-and-maroon emblem of [...]

Bay Area biotech giants have a flood of drugs surging toward the end of the product pipeline - a far cry from not-so-distant days when new drugs flowed from the [...]

Blue Shield of California has run out of excuses. It's been nearly three years since CEO Wayne Moon came on board to revitalize the San Francisco insurance giant and shed [...]

The so-called 'health-care organizations' created by the state's 1993 workers' compensation reform package to pave the way to 24-hour medical care have become a roadblock instead, say critics of the [...]

Bay Area doctors battling to gain vital links to managed-care networks have been offered a unique prescription by two Arizona-based companies: Send us your money, preferably by credit card, and [...]

California's homeowners' insurance crunch is starting to squeeze home buyers and sellers, and no end is in sight. As the availability of coverage shrinks drastically, insurance companies and brokers are [...]

A wall goes up for new docs For the first time in its 50-year history, newly hired doctors at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California are no longer eligible to become [...]

With California glutted, less developed states are being targeted With the highly competitive California market reaching its saturation point, HMOs are looking beyond state borders for merger-and-acquisition candidates to help [...]

For a city whose psyche and image are already battered, the potential departure of the Oakland Athletics and the Golden State Warriors sports franchises is a nightmare few business and [...]

Recent hospital bankruptcies have called into question the long-term solvency of the Cal-Mortgage Loan Guarantee program, a $2.03 billion state insurance program guaranteeing tax-exempt bonds for 214 public and nonprofit [...]

Mt. Diablo Medical Center in Concord in considering a new round of layoffs, a 5 percent across-the-board pay cut and other changes to reverse a precipitous financial decline. The not-for-profit [...]

Last month's Northridge earthquake has rattled the global insurance industry enough to send Bay Area commercial earthquake premiums and deductibles soaring, while availability plummets. Availability -- especially of new coverage [...]

Hospitals, HMOs and doctors are breathing a little easier now that the state has unveiled its ambitious plan to move as many as 3.3 million Medi-Cal recipients into managed care. [...]

OAKLAND -- Imagine the Bay Area health care scene as a football scrimmage, with Kaiser Permanente a burly 900-pound gorilla alone on offense. Opposite, a rag-tag band of Lilliputians huddles [...]

Retail reflects neighborhood change Clement Street, particularly the multicultural stretch from Arguello to Park Presidio, is a neighborhood shopping district in transition. To critics, Clement Street looks a lot like [...]

Imagine a land where specialty physicians still hold significant sway, hospitals scurry to secure the latest computed tomography scanners or magnetic resonance imaging equipment, private patients pay their bills in [...]

WellPoint Health Networks has the blues over the delays dogging its pending $500 million acquisition of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia. The acquisition of the Atlanta-based Blues plan, [...]

Anthem, a fast-growing Indianapolis-based health insurer, added to its substantial holdings in New England last week with the completion of its $120 million purchase of Blue Cross and Blue Shield [...]

One of Hawaii's leading hospital systems effectively is giving away its money-losing managed-care plan. Honolulu-based Kapiolani Health last week agreed to transfer the 27,000 commercial enrollees in its HealthHawaii HMO [...]

Suing managed-care plans for managing care and costs is like suing babies for crying. That's what they do. But three recent lawsuits challenge that notion, threatening the fundamental elements of [...]

Beyond Benefits, a Long Beach, Calif.-based PPO launched in the spring, has agreed to buy the Chicago-based HealthStar PPO for more than $10 million in cash and stock. HealthStar's parent [...]

Foundation Health Systems is selling the Medicaid portion of its health plan business in Washington state and transferring its commercial business there to two other insurers. The moves are part [...]

Humana and Aetna U.S. Healthcare last week were hit with class-action lawsuits alleging that they misled HMO enrollees by failing to adequately disclose terms of coverage and treatment. The lawsuits [...]

Thanks to rapidly escalating premiums, many health plans are looking healthier than last year, but checkup results vary significantly by individual HMO, size and region. Provider-owned health plans, for the [...]

HONOLULU-After being jilted by one of Hawaii's healthcare giants in an attempt to salvage its struggling HealthHawaii HMO, Kapiolani Health almost immediately launched talks with another island powerhouse. The new [...]

While the president and Congress haggle over a mandatory prescription medicine benefit, many of the largest health plans will significantly cut the drug assistance they offer to seniors next year. [...]

Two small communities thousands of miles apart, one in Arkansas and the other in California, are working hard to reclaim their hospitals as locally operated not-for-profit institutions after years of [...]

After agreeing to a rent increase, Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., will continue to lease the 110-bed facility from the hospital's owner, the Marin Healthcare District. The Sept. 20 [...]

Why buy a gas-guzzling clunker when you can afford a fuel-efficient sedan? That seems to be the principle at work in Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas' proposed $500 [...]

Curtis Roberts fell in love with hospitals during a tour of duty as a McKinsey & Co. consultant in the early 1990s. Now he wants to change the way they [...]

It wasn't only a few years ago that Carol Diamond's career took on a Tiffany sheen. In the mid-1990s, Diamond, who already had an M.D., added a master's in public [...]

Catholic Healthcare West's pending purchase of South Valley Hospital in Gilroy, Calif., will eliminate its only acute-care rival in the area just south of San Jose, Calif., and will force [...]

A money-losing physician-hospital organization linking the last independent hospital in the Sacramento, Calif., market with its doctors may have been salvaged by a last-minute compromise. The latter entails how the [...]

At least in the short term, the four hospitals that created UCSF Stanford Health Care two years ago would have been better off if they had not merged, suggests a [...]

Richard Warren feels strongly about capitation, and he doesn't care who knows it. ``We got sold a bill of goods. I don't know anybody who's making money on it,'' says [...]

Ending a two-year civil investigation by state and federal authorities, Honolulu-based Kapiolani Health agreed last week to pay $3.4 million to settle charges that it overbilled Medicare and Medicaid for [...]

It's tough enough for a hospital system to run its own HMO, but when the plan's chief executive officer is alleged to have embezzled money, it certainly can compound problems. [...]

This article focuses on Attorney General Thomas Reilly's targeting Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California. Issues concerning health plans that want to drop their medicare HMOs are examined., In an apparent effort to win favor with their political constituencies, regulators in Massachusetts and New Hampshire are making it uncomfortable for two health plans that want to drop their [...]

A merger linking two of the largest hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area is on hold until late October. The potential merger partners-555-bed Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley, [...]

As federal lawmakers prepare to battle over patient-protection legislation next month in Washington, California's Democratic governor, Gray Davis, late last week presented the state Legislature with a rough draft of [...]

Although Aetna has completed its long-delayed $1 billion acquisition of Prudential HealthCare, the deal brought with it 1 million fewer enrollees than expected, along with conditions imposed by state and [...]

Queen's Health Systems in Honolulu, which owns Hawaii's largest private hospital, may bid aloha to its managed-care business, joining the growing ranks of hospitals that have dumped their money-losing HMOs. [...]

The senior executives who guided the troubled UCSF Stanford Health Care system through its first two years of existence resigned last week, creating uncertainty for the future of the system. [...]