HHS should brace itself for some grueling days ahead as officials haggle with states, insurers and providers over a set of draft regulations implementing key insurance provisions of the reform law.
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At their best, advertising and marketing play a vital role in helping people know what goods and services are out there, and then once they try them, the free market sorts out who wins and who loses.
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How quickly medical images can be shared is an issue facing physicians across the country even as federal funding has been made available to establish medical image networks that would allow providers to share images.
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A new Congressional Budget Office estimate adjusted to include the final 2013 CMS physician-fee schedule calculates it would cost $25.2 billion over 10 years to pay for a one-year suspension of the 26.5% Medicare pay cut to physicians called for by the SGR formula and scheduled for Jan. 1.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved a new seasonal influenza vaccine that is produced using cultured animal cells, a method that makes it easier to keep supplies readily available and is quicker to produce in the event of a pandemic than current methods used in the U.S. The vaccine, called...
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The CMS chose the first three participants in its Medicare data-sharing for performance measurement program, which focuses on increasing consumer access to healthcare quality and cost information. The three groups are the Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, the Kansas City...
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Moody's Investors Service said analysts would review and may downgrade the A3 credit rating for NYU Langone Medical Center's hospitals “following the damage and interruption” from superstorm Sandy. The extended closure of NYU Langone Medical Center's Tisch Hospital, which was evacuated...
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HHS should brace itself for some grueling days ahead as officials haggle with states, insurers and providers over a set of draft regulations implementing key insurance provisions of the reform law.
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Hospitals and physicians are scurrying to find partners at a dizzying rate, and federal antitrust regulators are in no way assuming the deals represent only a benevolent drive toward integration under healthcare reform.
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Four ambulatory surgery centers are allied in an antitrust lawsuit against two major healthcare systems, plus a state division of a major health plan and the state ASC trade association.
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In the 1890s, Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch robbed slow trains using fast horses and six-shooters. Today, the government is hinting that hospitals and physicians are robbing Medicare at the speed of electricity, using electronic health-record systems and billing software.
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Accountable care and bundled-payment deals made possible by the healthcare reform law could jeopardize not-for-profit hospitals' access to tax-exempt financing, the American Hospital Association said last week as it urged regulators to revamp rules.
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Consolidation has long been a topic of discussion among the leaders of the nation's two largest membership organizations for nurse practitioners. But with fast-approaching changes brought by the healthcare reform law and a growing demand for greater advocacy on behalf of the profession, 2012 proved...
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It's one of healthcare's toughest nuts, but care integration, if addressed properly, can deliver on improved safety, lower costs and better outcomes. That was the message of a recently released position paper from the Lucian Leape Institute, a think tank housed within the Boston-based National...
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How quickly medical images can be shared is an issue facing physicians across the country even as federal funding has been made available to establish medical image networks that would allow providers to share images.
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MELBOURNE, Fla.—Health First, a Rockledge, Fla., health system, plans to acquire Melbourne Internal Medicine Associates, a multispecialty physician practice. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Health First said in a news release that it plans to combine the new practice...
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NEW YORK—Bellevue Hospital Center, one of two New York City-owned hospitals that remain closed because of damage from superstorm Sandy, resumed some ambulatory services Nov. 19. The hospital's emergency room is expected to open in mid-December after power is restored, but the ER will...
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HELENA, Mont.—Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana has filed for regulatory approval for its proposed deal with Health Care Service Corp., which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in four other states. The insurer said in a news release that it submitted paperwork to the...
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CHICAGO—The estimated cost of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago's new tower in downtown Chicago has shot up more than 10% since January, to nearly $523 million, as hospital executives fine-tune their plans, according to an application filed with the Illinois Health Facilities and...
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At their best, advertising and marketing play a vital role in helping people know what goods and services are out there, and then once they try them, the free market sorts out who wins and who loses.
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“What a coincidence that just a week after the election, a Washington think tank described as an idea factory for President Barack Obama presented a plan for significant federal budget savings through cuts in Medicare. The pre-election rhetoric from the White House was all about fighting...
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The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and implementation of Medicare's value-based purchasing program have thrust the issue of patient experience to the top of the healthcare agenda in the U.S.
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A list of the nation's 12 largest healthcare unions, ranked by national membership with the healthcare industry for 2012. Source: Modern Healthcare reporting. Published Nov. 26, 2012, p. 32.
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Outliers always knew that a little retail therapy could improve our mood, but now we have scientific evidence that explains why sadness can be detrimental to our wallet.
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Dr. Quentin Young, a longtime advocate of a single-payer health system, found himself pulled into another type of political controversy in Illinois recently.
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