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The ranks of women executives are growing at a time when a national conversation has refocused on how to get more women to aim for the highest levels of their professions.
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A study that appeared last week documented a decade-long rise in 30-day mortality rates at critical-access hospitals, most of which are rural with fewer than 25 beds.
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When the president delivers his spending blueprint this week, he is likely to dust off ideas for healthcare cuts he has proposed before. Liberal advocates, though, are girding for a new wrinkle for seniors.
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Insurers and their stockholders howled with delight after last week's decision by the CMS to reverse Medicare Advantage cuts. But they may be in for a rude awakening. Medicare Advantage is still facing a 10-year, $156 billion reduction mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...
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By Beth Kutscher and Rachel Landen
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The ranks of women executives are growing at a time when a national conversation has refocused on how to get more women to aim for the highest levels of their professions.
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The Top 25 Women in Healthcare have battled through a lot to get to this moment: navigating their organizations through the biggest changes in the history of healthcare, emerging from the greatest economic maelstrom since the...
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To select Modern Healthcare's fifth biennial listing of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare, sponsored by Furst Group, the magazine issued a call for nominations on Dec. 10, 2012. The nomination deadline was Jan. 25. Readers submitted a...
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Senators are planning a bipartisan policy grilling of Marilyn Tavenner as confirmation hearings begin today, but they're likely to move her toward becoming the first confirmed CMS administrator since 2006.
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Editor's note: Modern Healthcare reporter Jessica Zigmond interviewed acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner at HHS headquarters April 3, less than a week before Tavenner was scheduled to appear before the Senate Finance Committee for a confirmation hearing. Here is an edited excerpt of their...
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The Democratic governor in Arkansas is close to pulling off something that leaders in Republican-led states like his would like to duplicate: drawing millions of dollars in new federal healthcare funding while ducking the appearance of adding to their Medicaid rolls.
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Hospitals are bracing for a potential influx of cancer chemotherapy patients after some outpatient community cancer clinics warned sequester cuts to drug reimbursements will force them to turn away Medicare beneficiaries or risk closing their doors for good.
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At the end of 2011, Wake Forest Baptist Health launched a communications blitz to introduce a major overhaul to its retirement benefits. The system froze its pension plan and transitioned all employees to 403(b) accounts.
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The healthcare reform law is already driving big changes in the ways hospitals deliver care and get paid for it. In a matter of months, the law will extend health coverage to millions of Americans through the new insurance exchanges and broader Medicaid eligibility.
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Though scientists remain divided over the importance of reducing dietary salt, some healthcare systems struggling to lower their readmission rates are taking public health warnings to heart.
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After dozens of lawmakers took up the fight, a federal agency on Friday delayed a policy change that hospitals said could unfairly limit their access to deeply discounted drugs in the federal 340B program.
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When Dr. Ruth Parker talks to providers about the need to focus on health literacy, she rarely encounters anyone who doesn't agree that it's an issue with serious implications for healthcare outcomes.
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When Dr. Ruth Parker talks to providers about the need to focus on health literacy, she rarely encounters anyone who doesn't agree that it's an issue with serious implications for healthcare outcomes.
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A study that appeared last week documented a decade-long rise in 30-day mortality rates at critical-access hospitals, most of which are rural with fewer than 25 beds.
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People's lives today are full of choices. They know what they like. They know what matters to them. They trust their judgment and check with their gut. But when it comes to choices related to their health, they could use a little help.
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I am very disheartened to hear about this ("CMS does about-face on Medicare Advantage payment cuts,” April 1). I did the billing for a rheumatologist while I...
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A list of the nation's 25 busiest hospital emergency departments ranked by number of emergency room visits in 2011. Source: Health Forum, 2011 AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals. Published April 8, 2013, p. 30.
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Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine named Dr. Elliott Fisher to succeed Dr. James Weinstein as director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, effective immediately. Weinstein stepped down in November 2011 to become CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and...
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It seems Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill plans to be an orthopedic surgeon one day, and this year he's getting the chance to dabble in the field—without even having to finish med school.
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The med student stereotype calls to mind an individual driven by ambition, with their face buried in a book or peering into a microscope. The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine sought to shake up that image last year by resorting to verse. And the Pritzker Poetry Contest was...
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