Now really, who else could it be? Is anyone else other than Kathleeen Sebelius managing a $941 billion budget and tasked with moving the massive reform law from paper to reality?
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Amid all the anger aimed at the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, no aspect of that wide-ranging statute has drawn more ire than the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
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Five months ago, Community Health Systems Chairman, President and CEO Wayne Smith and Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove unveiled a partnership they explained as a means to marry clinical and data and expertise to improve quality and efficiency.
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A new law in North Carolina marks a major advance in the movement to make healthcare prices more transparent for consumers. It arises from growing pressure on lawmakers and healthcare providers to give the public access to price information enabling patients to more effectively shop for care, thus...
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By Andis Robeznieks and Beth Kutscher
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After building it, they will leave. Rulon Stacey and Bruce Schroffel, who helped create University of Colorado Health three years ago, are stepping down from their respective positions as president and CEO, effective Jan. 31.
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This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 15 newcomers as well as seven honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 15 newcomers as well as seven leaders who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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Now really, who else could it be? Is anyone else other than Kathleeen Sebelius managing a $941 billion budget and tasked with moving the massive reform law from paper to reality?
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Six elected officials are included in this year's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare list, and it's an even mix: three Democrats, three Republicans; three based in Washington, three based in the states; and three...
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Payment reform is considered one of the keys to transforming the healthcare system from one that rewards volume to one that incentivizes value and quality. Health insurers have stepped up and are using their influence to test these new concepts.
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Like insurance company executives, the leaders of big healthcare vendors, supply companies and group purchasing organizations are seeing their roles and the nature of their influence changing. And, naturally, the bigger the organization, the bigger their influence.
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Not surprisingly, the leaders of healthcare's megahospital systems were once again well-represented on Modern Healthcare's annual ranking of 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. But others, coming from systems...
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In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Andis Robeznieks talks with RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United. She has made Modern Healthcare's list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare every year since its inception in 2002.
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As reform pushes healthcare into uncharted terrain, groups in different industry sectors are staking out new territory, defending their turf or just trying to survive.
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Hospitals in states forgoing the healthcare reform law's Medicaid expansion share the common challenge of caring for the uninsured without the billions in federal funds that about half of the states will start to receive next year under the expansion.
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The emergence of unexpectedly low-cost health plans in some state insurance exchanges means that federal subsidies to exchange subscribers earning less than 400% of the poverty level will be lower than expected in some states.
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As more of the country's physician specialty societies join the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation's “Choosing Wisely” campaign, questions still remain about how effective it has been in getting doctors to stop ordering services of questionable medical value.
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It was her interest in examining how education, poverty and geography influence the health status of communities that prompted Dr. Sandra Hernandez to make the switch in 1997 from her role as director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health to the world of philanthropy, heading the San...
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The Federal Trade Commission may have won a battle, but it lost the war over Phoebe Putney Health System's expansion in southwestern Georgia.
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The University of Virginia last week joined the small but fast-growing cohort of major employers making dramatic changes to their healthcare plans for 2014, which many are blaming on rising healthcare costs and the implementation of the
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Modern Healthcare recently held its fifth Top 25 Women in Healthcare gala. At the event, we had the rare opportunity to interview a number of the honorees, getting some of the industry's most important voices to weigh in on some of the most crucial healthcare issues of the day. What follows are...
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Physicians say they like to use medical scribes to handle EHR data entry because they find EHRs slow and clunky to use, interfering with their interactions with patients.
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Amid all the anger aimed at the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, no aspect of that wide-ranging statute has drawn more ire than the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
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While nearly 26 million people are affected by diabetes in the U.S., not everyone has access to the care and services that allow for successful disease management.
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Regarding “Reform Update: AMA blasts new Medicare physician fee schedule, defends RUC," the American Medical Association is misdirecting its criticism of the
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A list of six major hospitalist service contractors in the nation, ranked by total revenue in 2012 where available. Also includes a list of 30-day readmissions penalties: most improved hospitals, which shows 15 organizations ranked by revenue gained by improved performance. Source: Modern...
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Nothing personal. But your physician really doesn't want you to e-mail him, according to a new study. Patients said e-mails save them time, and health groups reported improved patient-satisfaction scores when their doctors used e-mail to communicate with patients, according to research by a Weill...
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Afraid there may be peanuts or other allergens hiding in that cookie? Thanks to a cradle and app that turn your smartphone into a handheld biosensor, you may soon be able to run on-the-spot tests for food safety, environmental toxins, medical diagnostics and more.The handheld biosensor was...
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"Partners (HealthCare System) might claim they are more efficient. But does (a merger) add more services or boost up the price? One of the big issues is, when Partners gets hold of an entity, it also extracts bigger prices.''
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