For providers that own health plans, the new insurance markets offer an alluring opportunity for them to expand or gain market share in their primary business: providing healthcare.
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Food service companies and hospitals say the move toward healthier food options on hospital menus and cafeterias is shaping purchasing practices, food contracts and business strategies.
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While the CMS' proposed payment schedule for 2014 includes small increases in Medicare payments for acute- and long-term care hospitals, it would change reimbursement for facilities serving high numbers of the uninsured, drawing fire from public hospitals.
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For providers that own health plans, the new insurance markets offer an alluring opportunity for them to expand or gain market share in their primary business: providing healthcare.
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With the Senate's gun-control legislation stalled—and mental health provisions along with it—behavioral healthcare advocates wonder whether tying the issues together is the right approach.
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It was supposed to be smooth sailing now for Marilyn Tavenner to be confirmed as CMS administrator. She enjoyed a generally warm reception during a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. The committee voted without dissent to move her along to the full Senate, which was expected to approve...
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The first quarter of 2013 looked like it might be a big one for hospitals as the New Year opened with an early, severe flu season that led to a rush for services.
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Accountable care organizations in Medicare's Pioneer ACO program failed to win a one-year reprieve from having financial incentives tied to their performance on quality benchmarks.
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Proponents of emerging forms of advanced illness care are banking on new payment models, such as accountable care organizations, to bolster their efforts and provide reliable reimbursement.
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For the first time, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS revoked certifications for electronic health-record systems, raising troubling questions about how physicians and hospitals should react if the government nixes a system they are already...
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Modern Healthcare is pleased to announce its 2013 CEO IT Achievement Awards go to John Bluford, president and CEO of Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City, Mo., and Dr. Narendra Kini, president and CEO of Miami Children's Hospital.
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The majority of hospitals have conducted real-time exercises with community partners since the Joint Commission adopted a requirement for real-time or “tabletop” community drills in 2003. A story in the April 22 issue (“
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Editor's note: At a time of rapid change in the healthcare industry, HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson's office is charged with steering healthcare companies on the path of honest and transparent work. Modern Healthcare reporter Joe Carlson sat down with Levinson last week to talk about new...
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You might occasionally see superheroes washing windows or Star Wars characters roaming the halls at the new Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Fla.
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Vermont may have a reputation as a small, laid-back state best known for maple syrup and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, but the task facing Lindsey Tucker is almost as large as the state's Green Mountains. The deputy commissioner of the state's health insurance exchange, Vermont Health Connect, faces the...
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Food service companies and hospitals say the move toward healthier food options on hospital menus and cafeterias is shaping purchasing practices, food contracts and business strategies.
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COLUMBIA, Mo.—The University of Missouri Health System recently opened a $190 million expansion to University Hospital. The 310,500-square-foot addition includes a 100,000-square-foot replacement for its Ellis Fischel Cancer Center on two of the towers' eight floors. The building has...
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OAKLAND, Calif.— The percentage of California employers that offer healthcare coverage to their employees has plummeted in the past decade. In 2012, 60% of California employers offered coverage to their employees, down from 71% in 2002, according to a survey by the California...
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PITTSBURGH—UPMC, a not-for-profit health system with its tax-exempt status under attack, is fighting back with a lawsuit against its hometown and mayor. The health system's lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Pennsylvania, alleges the city of Pittsburgh...
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HOUSTON—Catholic Health Initiatives will acquire six-hospital St. Luke's Episcopal Health System in Houston, pending regulatory approvals. The Texas Episcopal Diocese approved the definitive agreement, which includes a $1 billion investment from Englewood, Colo.-based CHI. CHI will...
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“During the big healthcare fight, conservatives told older Americans that Obamacare was grabbing money from their Medicare and giving it to young people. Now they tell young workers that Medicare and Social Security are draining their take-home pay to support retirees sitting around the...
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I'm afraid I have to respectfully disagree with your Top 25 Women in Healthcare (“Beyond the glass ceiling,” April 8). While these may be the choices of the industry itself, it negates the influence of...
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A list of the largest publicly traded pharmaceutical companies, ranked by 2012 revenue reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other sources. Source: Modern Healthcare. Published April 29, 2013.
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Ascension Health, St. Louis, promoted Patricia Maryland to president of healthcare operations and COO, effective July 1. Maryland, 59, is the Michigan ministry market leader for Ascension Health and president and CEO of St. John Providence Health System in Detroit. In her new role, Maryland...
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Next time you're doing a risk assessment while planning a menu … wait, you don't do a risk assessment? According to some new research, Outliers thinks it might be a good idea.
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And in other culinary danger news, steer clear of the cinnamon challenge. That's the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos that has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.
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The majority of hospitals have conducted real-time exercises with community partners since the Joint Commission adopted a requirement for real-time or “tabletop” community drills in 2003. A story in the April 22 issue (“
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