Medical marijuana expansion advances in Texas

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/22 3:55A Kimberly Reeves

A record 63 marijuana-related bills were filed at the Texas Capitol this session. Only one tied to medical marijuana has made much progress, but it's got wide-ranging and bipartisan support.

Methodist Health System CEO accelerates retirement, interim named

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/18 9:13A Bill Hethcock

Methodist Health System President and CEO Stephen L. Mansfield, who has led the organization since 2006, will retire on Tuesday.

Foreman Therapy Services: finalist

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/17 4:25A The Business Journals Content St

Foreman Therapy Services is a finalist for the Entrepreneurial Opportunity Contest in partnership with BBVA Compass. For more information on the contest, click here. Company description: Foreman Therapy Services (FTS) is a healthcare staffing...

Center for Psychological Services: finalist

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/17 4:25A The Business Journals Content St

Center for Psychological Services is a finalist for the Entrepreneurial Opportunity Contest in partnership with BBVA Compass. For more information on the contest, click here. Company description: CFPS is a multidisciplinary behavioral health care...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas to open 10 medical centers

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/11 3:18A Anne Stych

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas will partner with multinational health company Sanitas USA to open 10 primary-care medical centers in Dallas and Houston.  Construction will begin in spring 2019, and the medical centers will be open for...

Texas Neurology signs on for space near Mockingbird Station

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/10 10:00A Anne Stych

Texas Neurology, a diagnostic patient care practice for patients with neurological disorders, has signed a 15-year lease for more than 40,000 square feet on the first floor of 6080 NCX, a four-story office building in Dallas.  Mike Gosslee,...

Center for Psychological Services: Entrepreneurial Opportunity Contest finalist

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/10 3:39A The Business Journals Content St

Company description: CFPS is a multidisciplinary behavioral health care practice focusing on families and children in North Texas communities. CFPS offers psychological assessments and direct treatment services, consultation to individuals,...

Foreman Therapy Services: Entrepreneurial Opportunity Contest finalist

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/10 3:39A The Business Journals Content St

Company description: Foreman Therapy Services (FTS) is a healthcare staffing company providing physical, occupational and speech therapists to home health agencies across the country.   Our mission statement is to change the culture of the home...

Texas Lawbook: Jury delivers verdict in Forest Park bribery and kickbacks trial

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/9 1:20P Bruce Tomaso and Natalie Posgate

A jury in the Forest Park Medical Center bribery and kickbacks trial returned its verdict late Tuesday, The Texas Lawbook reports.

Forest Park Trial: Now, the jury decides

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/4 7:05A Bruce Tomaso

Jurors began deliberating Wednesday in the Forest Park medical fraud trial. Just barely. After more than 11 hours of closing arguments and final instructions from U.S. District Judge Jack Zouhary, the jury of three men and nine women retreated to...

Drug sites upend doctor-patient relations: ‘It’s restaurant-menu medicine’

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 4/2 11:16P Natasha Singer and Katie Thomas

Web sites like Roman and Hers now make obtaining lifestyle drugs for sexual health, hair loss and anxiety nearly as easy as ordering dinner online.

?Lawsuits lay bare Sackler family’s role in opioid crisis

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 3/31 11:59P Danny Hakim, Roni Caryn Rabin an

The business potential of adding addiction treatment to the mix was illustrated in internal company charts and diagrams.

?In divided White House, Trump sided with Mulvaney in push to nullify health law

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 3/27 11:58P Maggie Haberman and Robert Pear

The president’s acting chief of staff and others convinced the president that he could do through the courts what he could not do through Congress: repeal his predecessor’s signature achievement.

Study: North Texas doctors have one of the largest gender wage gaps

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 3/27 3:07A Taylor Tompkins

North Texas doctors are making some of the highest salaries in the country overall, but women physicians are still lagging behind their counterparts, according to a study by medical network Doximity. The self-reported data shows that Dallas-Fort...

60 marijuana bills at Texas Capitol — but just one making progress

Dallas Business Journal (Health Care) 3/27 3:02A Kimberly Reeves

Marijuana proponents in Texas should keep their eyes on House Bill 63, the best chance to change state drug laws this session. But progress has been a lot slower than many hoped.