More hospitals and docs are signing accountable care contracts that tie payouts to delivering better results at lower costs. Some want insurers to nudge patients toward choices that help them do it.
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A new study predicts that people who already buy their own health insurance plans will face huge premium hikes when the exchanges created by the reform law open for business later this year.
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Sitting in his living room in rural Knoxville, Ill., Jack Fisher wouldn't appear to represent the next wave in 21st century healthcare. But he does.
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HHS delivered its final rule on the federal funding to cover the full cost of new Medicaid beneficiaries under the healthcare reform law, but the department is still accepting comments on the methodology states can use to determine whether a new beneficiary qualifies for the enhanced funding.
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California became the fifth state—and by far the largest—to win approval of a CMS demonstration project that will put beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid into managed-care plans. The agreement between the California Department of Health Care Services and the CMS will...
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a revised toolkit hospitals can use to lower their rates of preventable readmissions, particularly among patients with limited English proficiency and patients from diverse backgrounds. The Re-Engineered Discharge Toolkit is based on Project...
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More hospitals and docs are signing accountable care contracts that tie payouts to delivering better results at lower costs. Some want insurers to nudge patients toward choices that help them do it.
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Federal regulators are sounding the alarm over physician-owned distributorships of orthopedic devices, which the regulators worry may be violating the nation's kickback laws and driving up costs.
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In an effort to scale back use of high-priced imaging of questionable value in cancer treatment, Medicare has proposed ending reimbursement for post-treatment positron emission tomography scanning in prostate cancer patients and limiting its use to one scan for most other cancer indications.
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Modern Healthcare editors and reporters are always striving to make our news available wherever our readers need it. That's why we are launching a new Daily News App that provides a tablet-optimized view of the healthcare business news that executives need most.The app features the latest...
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Healthcare attracts people who are concerned with making their communities better places to live. By choosing healthcare as a profession, their life's work becomes a way to help those around them live better, longer and happier lives.
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Healthcare spending in the U.S. dwarfs what other industrialized nations pay as a percentage of their economies. That appears to be true, too, for the prices paid for many services, drugs and devices. The International Federation of Health Plans is collecting data that its members (more than 100 in...
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The U.S. Justice Department closed its widely watched antitrust case against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, but the government is expected to continue scrutinizing how insurers use controversial “most-favored nation” pricing contracts in other states.
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The wrong photo appeared with an item in the March 18 issue about the appointment of Allen Hobbs as chief client officer for Conifer Health Solutions
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Some of the nation's largest for-profit hospital chains are sitting on mounting cash piles, suggesting to analysts that a wave of dealmaking may be in the offing.
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A new study predicts that people who already buy their own health insurance plans will face huge premium hikes when the exchanges created by the reform law open for business later this year.
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Half of all adult Americans are expected to be obese by 2030, and already more than 40 million adults do not meet appropriate physical activity levels. The challenge of addressing obesity and physical inactivity requires new thinking and monitoring by healthcare providers.
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It is outrageous for the National Institutes of Health to sponsor a $31 million study of chelation therapy (Modern Physician, March 27) that left some commenters questioning the integrity of the investigators. It makes me question if NIH's entire purpose was to make it fail, since EDTA treatment is...
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A list of the nation's 16 largest physician staffing firms based on National Association of Physician Recruiters membership, ranked by number of physician recruiters as of March 2013. Source: NAPR. Published April 1, 2013, p. 34.
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What's more symbolic of strenuous exertion without progress than a treadmill?The stationary exercise device was both a symbolic and literal target of attacks recently by a prominent Republican against the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the CMS.
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Providers in the Military Health System who are feeling the pressure of caring for our wounded warriors now have one more tool to help them cope.
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“We were prepared to do that had we had the votes to do it after the election. Well, the election didn't turn out the way we wanted it to. The monstrosity has ... begun to be implemented, and we're not giving up the fight.”
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The wrong photo appeared with an item in the March 18 issue about the appointment of Allen Hobbs as chief client officer for Conifer Health Solutions
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