The media-fueled saga of 10-year-old cystic fibrosis patient Sarah Murnaghan ended happily last week for her and her family. But the successful legal and publicity campaign that allowed her to leap to the front of the waiting list for a life-saving lung transplant highlights an underlying dilemma.
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Hospital executives are watching to see whether the net financial gains from next year's coverage expansion under the reform law surpass losses from the law's looming reimbursement cuts.
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Congress may be salivating over a long list of opportunities to cut hospitals' outpatient services. In March 2012, the MedPAC said the government could save as much as $1 billion a year by paying a uniform rate for evaluation and management office visits.
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The Obama administration lost another one of its top healthcare officials last week just as HHS prepares to kick implementation of the 2010 healthcare reform law into high gear. A little more than a week after it was revealed that Dr. Rick Gilfillan will leave his job this month as director of the...
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Medicare's accountable care push isn't doing enough for the patients who need them the most, said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Wyden, speaking last week at the National Accountable Care Organization Summit in Washington, said the attribution rule under the Patient...
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The media-fueled saga of 10-year-old cystic fibrosis patient Sarah Murnaghan ended happily last week for her and her family. But the successful legal and publicity campaign that allowed her to leap to the front of the waiting list for a life-saving lung transplant highlights an underlying dilemma.
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Like partners choosing up for a dance—or, depending on one's outlook for the healthcare industry, teams forming for a game of dodgeball—providers organizations aiming to be early adopters of Big Data and large-scale analytics programs are busy picking out their advisers and IT providers.
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With so many hospital computers and pieces of medical equipment plugged into the Internet, the healthcare system is increasingly vulnerable to intruders or malware that could crash critical components or steal information.
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Federal officials are looking to scale back the use of long observation stays believed to be a response to Medicare auditors cracking down on inappropriate admissions.
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Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Myriad Genetics' monopoly on testing for two breast cancer genes, the company's stock went tumbling as competitors announced plans to offer the same services at lower prices.
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Each summer, teaching hospitals undergo a transformation as a team of experienced residents leave and are replaced by trainees fresh out of medical school. Some view this as a time of peril for patients—commonly referred to as “the July...
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It's long been known that healthcare does not fit the standard model for perfect competition. Author Douglas Hough goes further: He says patients, providers and other stakeholders are irrational.
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On June 11, Modern Healthcare hosted its first Virtual Conference of 2013, Patient Safety & Quality. One component of the conference was a plenary session titled “Implementing a Culture of Continuous Improvement,” hosted by Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney.
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Medicare patients who have been treated for prostate cancer and other solid tumors will continue to have access to PET scans to guide subsequent therapy. Physicians, patients and medical imaging companies talked the CMS out of virtually ending payment for post-treatment PET scans.
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Hospital executives are watching to see whether the net financial gains from next year's coverage expansion under the reform law surpass losses from the law's looming reimbursement cuts.
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Regarding the story “Mich. doctors wary of bill to expand nurse practitioners' role”, while in a hospital, are nurse practitioners employed by the hospital? Are they independent contractors? Are they...
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A list of the nation's 24 largest revenue-cycle management companies, ranked by total number of healthcare revenue-cycle contracts in 2012. Source: Modern Healthcare's 2013 Revenue Cycle Firms Survey. Published June 17, 2013, p. 34.
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Dr. Karen Sciascia came back from her Montana fishing trip with a whopper of a fishing tale: how she helped rescue a 25-pound moose calf that was being swept away.
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It's not all public health wonk work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Seems the federal agency has won the grand prize at a film festival. Not quite Cannes, but cheers, nonetheless.
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