Tenet's Vanguard deal is about three things: building size and scale; squeezing more revenue from Vanguard's hospital and ambulatory-care portfolio; and becoming a bigger player in managed care.
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The public's love affair with advanced medical technology shows no signs of abating. When it comes to deploying advanced technology, it's easy to convince the average American.
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Nearly a year to the day after the Supreme Court ruled the reform law constitutional, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius launched her department's public awareness and outreach campaign.
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In the hours after the Senate mustered a 68-32 vote to pass an immigration reform bill, healthcare providers applauded the healthcare workforce provisions but also criticized lawmakers for declining to address healthcare coverage for immigrants.
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Tenet's Vanguard deal is about three things: building size and scale; squeezing more revenue from Vanguard's hospital and ambulatory-care portfolio; and becoming a bigger player in managed care.
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The success of the president's healthcare overhaul may depend on an unlikely feat: With little time, and limited resources, the Obama administration and its allies must find and entice millions of Americans who are eligible for new healthcare coverage and might not want to pay for it.
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Dr. Nogah Haramati, a radiologist based in New York, recently cancelled a meeting with a vendor—one of the many equipment manufacturers and software developers who routinely offer free dinners and lectures to ply their wares.
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U.S. Supreme Court's decision to recognize same-sex marriages in at least 13 states will have effects on families' insurance status, healthcare taxes and benefits for serving the federal government.
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President Barack Obama's speech last week laying out his climate action plan gratified public health advocates worried about the harmful effects of climate change on child and adult asthma, allergies and other respiratory diseases, heart disease, diabetes,...
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The old joke in healthcare research is that nearly every study concludes that more studies are needed. But two new studies on the high cost of low-benefit prostate cancer treatments support that humorous observation.
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Building on its success from the past 10 years, Project ECHO has established a national institute to replicate its model of using “telementoring” to improve the expertise of primary-care clinicians so they can better treat patients with chronic...
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For decades, the CMS has kept secret its records on Medicare claims payments to individual physicians. But Justice Department statements in a recent lawsuit and the first-ever releases of other provider charge data this year suggest the federal government's...
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As chief counsel to HHS' inspector general, Greg Demske drives the office's enforcement priorities and decisions. He also leads the office's efforts—in talks, advisory opinions and other industry guidance—to explain where the office comes down on an extremely complicated set of laws...
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A congressional proposal nearing introduction would create a flat-fee penalty for minor Stark law violations and would not put the entire payment at risk. A story in the June 24 issue...
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Private health insurance exchanges are growing and increasingly are being pitched to small employers. They are geared toward employers that buy fully insured products as well as self-insured firms.
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A growing number of private insurance exchange operators are targeting the small-employer market, and that could have a negative impact on the public small business exchanges established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, some experts say.
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Nearly a year to the day after the Supreme Court ruled the reform law constitutional, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius launched her department's public awareness and outreach campaign.
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OAKLAND, Calif.—The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan was fined $4 million by the state of California for failing to correct violations of mental health laws, including publishing materials that wrongly said the organization could deny...
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla.—Health Management Associates is on its way to forging its third deal this year after it was selected to begin negotiations with Bert Fish Medical Center. The public Southeast Volusia Hospital District chose Naples,...
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WINCHESTER, Mass.—Winchester Hospital signed a preliminary agreement to join a larger suburban Boston competitor, Burlington, Mass.-based Lahey Health. The board of the 200-bed hospital had been seeking a potential partner since March 2012. Under a letter of intent with Lahey Health,...
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The public's love affair with advanced medical technology shows no signs of abating. When it comes to deploying advanced technology, it's easy to convince the average American.
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“The Federal Trade Commission has been battling for years to end a devious tactic used by some drug companies to pay competitors to delay putting cheaper generic versions of their brand-name drugs on the market. The tactic, known as pay-for-delay, results in higher costs for consumers.
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Across the country, workplace wellness programs are making Americans healthier, paying quality-of-life dividends for millions of participating workers now and into the future. Employers are screening workers for diseases, paying for health club memberships...
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I sincerely appreciated your editorial (“Unnecessary compromise,”). The article thoroughly outlined the underlying points and background of the developing pharmaceutical supply chain security discussion.
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A list of the nation's 20 largest not-for-profit hospital systems, ranked by total net revenue. Sources: American Hospital Association 2013 Guide; Modern Healthcare reporting. Published July 1, 2013, p. 34.
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Outliers doesn't usually think of the Cleveland Clinic as a pop culture epicenter. But then it was revealed in June that the medical center was being credited with saving the life of rock legend Lou Reed with a liver transplant in May. Now the...
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Outliers was intrigued to learn HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is turning to professional sports leagues to get the word out on open enrollment for the insurance exchanges that starts in a few months.
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“How are you going to feel if you have to go into an emergency room? You'll walk in there, and see chair after chair of working poor people—hard-working people—knowing that's their healthcare system, when we could have given them a better answer.”
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A congressional proposal nearing introduction would create a flat-fee penalty for minor Stark law violations and would not put the entire payment at risk. A story in the June 24 issue...
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