A comparison shopper, working on behalf of major employers, struggled to find prices she could trust as she scoured health insurers' websites this spring.
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As of last week, the U.S. could once again claim some long-lost bragging rights in the science and technology arena. For the first time since late 2009, our country is now home to the fastest “supercomputer” on the planet.
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What makes Steward's acquisition of Landmark Medical Center unusual is the lengths that Landmark's court-appointed special master, Steward and public officials have gone to ensure the deal's success.
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The Internal Revenue Service issued 94 pages of proposed regulations Friday afternoon outlining proposals for how to implement new requirements for tax-exempt hospitals in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Recent changes to how hospitals must report uncompensated care have resulted in more accurate reporting of net revenue and more comparability among companies, according to a Fitch Ratings report. The report was reviewing a new rule from the Federal Accounting Standards Board, effective for fiscal...
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Merger talks between 786-bed NYU Langone Medical Center and three-hospital Continuum Health Partners ended after 1,029-bed Mount Sinai Medical Center, a third New York hospital organization, entered into discussions with Continuum, according to a statement released by NYU Langone.
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Inova Health System and Aetna announced they will partner to create a jointly owned health plan serving northern Virginia called Innovation Health Plans. Terms of the 50/50 partnership were not disclosed. The new insurer is expected to officially begin Jan. 1 and will seek to promote clinical...
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What makes Steward's acquisition of Landmark Medical Center unusual is the lengths that Landmark's court-appointed special master, Steward and public officials have gone to ensure the deal's success.
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For its eagerly anticipated first wave of grant funding, announced June 18, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute didn't jump right into traditional, side-by-side comparative effectiveness research.
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Two years ago, Ronald Reagan's former solicitor general, Charles Fried, felt so skeptical about constitutional challenges to the healthcare reform law that he vowed to make a meal of his own kangaroo-skin hat if the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the act.
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On a morning when nearly everyone with an interest in healthcare anxiously awaited the U.S. Supreme Court verdict on health reform, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was preparing for a call with reporters to credit the law for returning $1.1 billion in rebates to businesses and consumers.
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Accretive Health faces additional scrutiny from Congress and fresh allegations that the company illegally and aggressively sought to collect money from patients.
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It's time to take down your bet on Medicare and Medicaid reform happening this year. The combination of slow spending growth and the upcoming fall election has made reform of the two programs a long shot for the remainder of 2012.
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The Catholic Health Association's firm rejection of the Obama's administration attempt to appease concerns over its birth-control mandate left observers pondering what influence the reform ally's position could have on the policy.
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Three physicians and one organization are winners of the 2012 awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics from the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems.
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HealtheLink, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based regional health information organization also known as Western New York Clinical Information Exchange, is the lone organizational winner of an AMDIS award this year.
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AMDIS award winner Dr. Steve Arendt and his colleagues at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., saw the number of cases of ventilator-acquired pneumonia drop to zero during the past year while caregivers for stroke patients...
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Dr. James Killeen is the master of wireless emergency response. AMDIS award winner Killeen is an associate clinical professor of medicine in the emergency and hyperbaric medicine departments at the University of California at San Diego and the developer of WebCharts, an EHR system for the...
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Aug. 28, 2011, was moving day for the last patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the 102-year-old, 226-bed hospital in Washington where former President Dwight Eisenhower and hundreds of thousands of other veterans from America's many wars, from World War I to Afghanistan, had received...
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In an exclusive interview, Dan Porreca, executive director of HealtheLink, the health information exchange for Western New York, talks with Modern Healthcare reporter Joseph Conn. Porreca discusses the growth of the HIE and how it has begun linking with long-term-care facilities, where adoption of...
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A comparison shopper, working on behalf of major employers, struggled to find prices she could trust as she scoured health insurers' websites this spring.
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As of last week, the U.S. could once again claim some long-lost bragging rights in the science and technology arena. For the first time since late 2009, our country is now home to the fastest “supercomputer” on the planet.
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“With a Supreme Court decision on federal health reform expected any day, you might expect us to cheer news that several of the largest healthcare providers will keep popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act, or 'Obamacare,' in place. And while we're pleased to see the insurers finally...
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Most of us remember management buzzwords such as “synergy” and “win-win” that generated a lot of excitement—fast—and then fell out of favor as people started looking for the next big thing. This can happen to buzzwords that are short on substance. Often, though,...
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Re:“Court urged to broadcast reform ruling,” ModernHealthcare.com, June 19: The business of the Supreme Court is ensuring that the proposals and actions of the...
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A list of the nation's 13 largest healthcare fraud settlements, ranked by settlement amount recovered under the federal False Claims Act, 2011. Source: Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund. Published June 25, 2012, p. 32.
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NorthShore University HealthSystem COO Jeffrey Hillebrand plans to retire in September, bringing a 33-year tenure with the Evanston, Ill.-based system to a close. Hillebrand's departure prompted NorthShore to make three additional changes to its leadership team. Gerald “J.P.”...
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Samuel Odle, executive VP and COO at Indiana University Health, plans to retire July 13 after 31 years with the Indianapolis-based system. Odle also serves as president and CEO at IU Health Methodist and University hospitals. IU Health was formerly named Clarian Health and changed names last...
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, hospital to Hollywood's rich and glamorous, is adding another star to its own personal walk of fame. Already home to the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program, the Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Brain Tumor Center, and a cascading water sculpture named “George and...
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And while Outliers is on the subject of divas … there's JLo. Actress, dancer, pop star, TV hostess and producer, cosmetics and automobile spokesmodel, clothing- and perfume-line entrepreneur, pro-football team investor and philanthropist. Whew, Jennifer Lopez does a lot. Now, La Lopez...
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The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is seeking adolescents to participate in a clinical trial that will help the institute learn how to better encourage other adolescents to participate in other clinical trials in the future. If that sounds odd to you, then this next sentence may send you...
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