CMU to replace WSU as University Pediatricians partner
(WorldNews Health)

Central Michigan University has signed a clinical affiliation agreement with University Pediatricians, a 170-physician private-practice group affiliated with DMC Children`s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, taking a step rejected last year by the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, Crain`s has learned. The agreement was signed Jan. 1, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. Mt. Pleasant-based Central Michigan also has contacted Michigan Medicaid officials to receive approval to transfer $10 million in enhanced Medicaid funds to it from Wayne State, which currently administers the funding for University Pediatricians as part of another agreement....