Don't look for Intermountain Healthcare, the Utah health system widely cited for its efficiency and quality, to be among the hospitals and medical groups that are testing ACOs.
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A growing number of experts fear the rising popularity of high-deductible insurance plans could backfire and undermine the accountable care movement.
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Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare are headed toward becoming the largest not-for-profit system in Texas and one of the bigger ones in the U.S.
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The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments launched an enhanced, Web portal to try and address its notorious backlog of benefits claims affecting hundreds of thousands of veterans. The VA said the integration of the eBenefits portal with the new internal Veterans Benefits Management System (VBMS)...
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U.S. Reps. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) and Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) want HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson to investigate the implementation of the second round of Medicare's competitive-bidding program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies. Thompson and Braley previously...
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A growing number of experts fear the rising popularity of high-deductible insurance plans could backfire and undermine the accountable care movement.
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By Rachel Landen and Ashok Selvam
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Organizers last week kicked off a privately run campaign to promote the rollout of insurance and Medicaid expansion under the healthcare reform law—a must since a divided Congress has refused to appropriate funds to conduct a broad education and outreach effort.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hinted at promising news on the obesity front last week. The CDC's annual survey of the health status of Americans revealed obesity rose in 2012 at its slowest pace in a decade and, statistically speaking, may not have risen at all. Some experts said...
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Healthcare's financial managers will increasingly do business in a world where patients are on the hook for significant shares of their medical bills, prices are publicized and reimbursement is tied to quality.
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The nation's health information technology system passed a major milestone last month when the government announced that more than half of all U.S. physicians now use electronic health records.
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By Joseph Conn and Andis Robeznieks
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With 16 months left before the CMS expects the healthcare industry to flip the switch to ICD-10, physicians are still expressing significant worries with the readiness of the technology that has to be upgraded to pull it off.
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Four physician informaticists and the head of a statewide health information exchange organization have won the 14th annual AMDIS Awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics.
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From the beginning, the federal government sought to leverage the meaningful-use requirements in the electronic health-record incentive payment program to get providers to think about what the systems might do besides taking, storing and regurgitating patient records.
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Dealing with two new owners and meeting seven new quality metrics in just five months has made for a frenetic year for Dr. Robert White at his Albuquerque medical practice.
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Don't look for Intermountain Healthcare, the Utah health system widely cited for its efficiency and quality, to be among the hospitals and medical groups that are testing ACOs.
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As the healthcare industry prepares for the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known affectionately or derisively as “Obamacare,” the issues that preoccupy top hospital and system managers range from cost-cutting to...
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Oklahomans are no stranger to disaster. From the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in April 1995, to multiple weather-related tragedies since, people from all walks of life have learned to come together in times of crisis. It's become known as the “Oklahoma standard.” Recently,...
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A list of the nation's 75 largest healthcare law firms, based on a blended score of healthcare lawyers employed in 2012 and AHLA membership as of June 3. Source: Modern Healthcare's 2013 Healthcare Law Firms Survey. Published June 24, 2013, p. 32.
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The American Osteopathic Association named Adrienne White-Faines to succeed John Crosby as executive director. Crosby is retiring after serving as the Chicago-based association's executive director since 1997. White-Faines, 53, is scheduled to join the AOA next month. She previously worked...
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What is the Flopbuster X1 5000, you ask? It's the device used by biomechanics experts at Southern Methodist University to study how basketball players attempt to fool referees into calling fouls by unnecessarily falling to the ground.
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The annual American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting basically consists of several days of doctors talking for hours on end. While pontification is often the order of the day, a few delegates manage to crack wise.
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Urgent-care physician and hockey fan Dr. Patricia Higgins got a taste of her own type of medicine after an encounter with a puck during a recent Stanley Cup final game between the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins.
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