In an era when the healthcare industry is no longer growing faster than the rest of the economy, it takes something special to rack up double-digit or better gains for five consecutive years. The 40 members of Modern Healthcare's 2013 class of Healthcare's Hottest met that criteria and more.
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It's the question on everyone's mind. With open enrollment on the state insurance exchanges starting Oct. 1, will uninsured and underinsured Americans flock in large numbers to sign up for the new coverage?
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Congress' across-the-board sequestration cuts may deliver short-term savings, but at the expense of the long-term investment needed to generate even greater savings down the road.
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As Congress remains paralyzed over a short-term spending bill to fund the government after Sept. 30, analysts are looking ahead at key health policy issues other than the reform law that have taken a back seat during the spending fights and at how, where and when they might resurface.
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Look for more states to warm to some sort of Medicaid expansion now that the Obama administration proved it will bend to get states on board. On Friday, the CMS granted Arkansas a Medicaid waiver allowing the state...
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Audits or not, providers want the CMS to hold off on the new “two-midnights” rule for outpatient observation claims and change course on an accompanying reimbursement cut. Attempting to answer widespread anger among hospitals and doctors about the policy, CMS officials said that
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It's the question on everyone's mind. With open enrollment on the state insurance exchanges starting Oct. 1, will uninsured and underinsured Americans flock in large numbers to sign up for the new coverage?
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State-based Republican opposition to implementation of the healthcare reform law forced federal officials to scramble over the past six months to design and launch far more local health insurance exchanges than originally anticipated.
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Hospitals and medical groups are the organizations that most commonly see uninsured patients and have a powerful incentive to find a payment source. You might think they would play a major role in signing up uninsured Americans for subsidized private...
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Healthcare reform supporters are using every available advertising and communications vehicle to urge Americans to sign up for health coverage on the new state insurance exchanges, while Obamacare opponents are...
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Employers and workers are making new calculations that likely will add part-time workers and those who have lost their jobs to the 7 million shoppers expected to buy federally subsidized coverage on the exchanges for 2014.
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Just as President Barack Obama predicted, the rollout of the new state insurance exchanges is turning out to be bumpy on the eve of their opening.
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Five years ago, ProMedica launched a campaign to address nutrition problems after finding the system's hospitals and services were being used to treat conditions associated with malnutrition.
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Premier's $760 million IPO—priced above the upper end of its expected range and trading strong out of the gate—shows investor confidence in its diversified array of services and expectations under healthcare reform.
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A year ago, few people outside of the pharmacy sector knew much about drug compounding. Now the industry is at the center of legal and regulatory action.
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In an era when the healthcare industry is no longer growing faster than the rest of the economy, it takes something special to rack up double-digit or better gains for five consecutive years. The 40 members of Modern Healthcare's 2013 class of Healthcare's Hottest met that criteria and more.
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Modern Healthcare's new Healthcare's Hottest award program recognizes the fastest growing companies in these sectors: hospitals/hospital systems, physician group practices, payers/insurers, and suppliers.
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What it does: Recondo provides cloud-based revenue-cycle management software and services to healthcare providers to improve likelihood of timely and accurate payments.
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What it does: ScribeAmerica trains and supplies medical scribes who assist physicians in gathering data in the emergency department and other settings for medical record documentation.
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What it does: GlobalMed provides patients access to healthcare providers, and providers access to medical data through various forms of connectivity, including telemedicine.
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What it does: Extend Health provides health benefit management services using its proprietary exchange platform and decision-support tools and operates the largest private Medicare exchange.
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What it does: EndoChoice provides devices, diagnostics, imaging and infection-control services for specialists treating gastrointestinal conditions.
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What it does: The company provides information technology consulting to healthcare organizations that are implementing IT systems or upgrading existing ones.
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What it does: Solstice Benefits provides dental, vision, pharmaceutical, disability and life insurance benefit plans to groups and consumers.
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What it does: It provides managed long-term care and support services to elderly, special needs and dual-eligible individuals, focused on keeping them out of hospitals and nursing homes.
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b>What it does: BioRx distributes specialty pharmaceuticals and supplies and provides clinical, reimbursement and in-home support services for the treatment of hemophilia, AAT deficiency, severe nutritional deficiencies and other afflictions.
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What it does: Treo Solutions offers consulting services, data analytics and business intelligence to commercial and government health plans.
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What it does: Cumberland Consulting is a national technology implementation project management firm serving ambulatory, acute and post-acute healthcare providers.
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What it does: MedSynergies provides healthcare organizations and physicians with revenue-cycle management, practice management and other consulting services.
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What it does: The pharmacy services organization partners with providers, payers, accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical home programs to provide specialty medication management.
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What it does: Homecare Homebase provides customizable Web-based clinical, operational and financial software to the home-care and hospice industries.
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What it does: Evolution1 and its partners—health plans, administrators, financial institutions, insurers—provide healthcare benefit and payment services to employer groups and consumers.
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What it does: The company develops specialized, evidence-based techniques to heal a variety of chronic wounds, from diabetic ulcers to surgical wounds and burns.
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What it does: Edifecs is a healthcare information technology company dedicated to ensuring data security for healthcare organizations. It develops software facilitating the safe and efficient exchange of patient information to more than 250 healthcare organizations nationwide, including most...
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What it does: Arcadia Solutions offers healthcare consultants who help design and deliver proprietary software to hospitals, health systems and payer organizations, helping them to develop business strategies to improve the quality of care and reduce costs.
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What it does: Infosys Public Services, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Indian firm Infosys, provides business consulting and technology products and services to healthcare and public-sector organizations.
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What it does: Founded by Harvard Medical School professors in 1989, the company provides access to top-ranked medical experts to 30 million members worldwide to ensure accurate diagnoses and quality treatment as part of employers' health benefits.
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What it does: Focusing on hospitals and other healthcare providers, the privately owned company provides staffing management and continuing education software to more than 2,000 medical facilities across the country.
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What it does: The company develops innovative cost-efficiency strategies for Medicaid managed-care plans, commercial healthcare programs as well as self-insured employers.
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What it does: The company develops innovative cost-efficiency strategies for Medicaid managed-care plans, commercial healthcare programs as well as self-insured employers.
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What it does: Imprivata helps to ensure fast and safe access to patient health information through its single sign-on authentication management and secure text messaging solutions.
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What it does: Somnia is a physician-owned and -operated provider of customized anesthesia management for hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and office-based surgical practices.
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What it does: McBride is a 100% physician-owned hospital and clinic that specializes in orthopedic care. It has been recognized for joint replacements, total knee replacements and hip fracture repair.
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What it does: Jones Regional is a critical-access hospital in Anamosa, Iowa, that's part of UnityPoint Health. It has experienced rapid growth since moving into a new facility in 2009.
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What it does: Since 2005, the Laser Spine Institute has performed minimally invasive endoscopic procedures as an alternative to open-neck and back surgery. The company operates regional spine centers in Houston, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Tampa, Fla.
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What it does: CTG Health Solutions is a consulting firm that works to improve implementation of electronic health-record systems, facilitating integration of EHRs, ensuring security and optimizing software management. It's part of Computer Task Group, which offers industry-specific IT...
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What it does: Prime, owned collectively by 13 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, is a pharmacy benefit manager that handles patient prescription drug benefits for health plans, employers and government programs.
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What it does: Encompass Home Health offers comprehensive and high-quality home healthcare, pediatric and hospice services, with a national network of more than 120 agencies.
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What it does: The company consults with hospitals and physicians on optimizing operations management and offers research and technology services to healthcare organizations.
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What it does: Emergent is a physicians group offering comprehensive emergency care and care-management services/staffing for medical groups and hospitals in Southern California. It currently serves more than 20 facilities.
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Congress' across-the-board sequestration cuts may deliver short-term savings, but at the expense of the long-term investment needed to generate even greater savings down the road.
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If, as you claim, the debate over Obamacare is ill-informed (Editorial, “Obamacare's positive economic news,” Sept. 23, p. 20), editors like you deserve most of the credit. As opposed to your vague,...
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A list of the 20 largest biotechnology companies based on worldwide revenue in 2012. Source: BioPharm Insight and Modern Healthcare reporting. Published Sept. 30, 2013, p. 34.
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Eric Beyer, president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center in Boston since 2011, resigned Sept. 19. The academic medical center named Dr. Michael Wagner, president and CEO of the Tufts Medical Center Physicians Organization, interim CEO and asked Ellen Zane, vice chair and former...
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Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart has a new piece of equipment accompanying him on his latest tour—a cap fitted with electrodes that capture his brain activity and direct the movements of a light show while he's jamming on stage.
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For children with chronic medical conditions, being stuck in a hospital can be, at times, scary, stressful, lonely and even mind-numbingly boring. But at Miami Children's Hospital, young patients and their families will be able to channel those feelings into creative art projects during two...
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Outliers has always thought of the profusion of acronyms in healthcare as just annoying. But now, one has sparked a legal battle, as University HealthSystem Consortium is suing UnitedHealth Group over the use of “UHC.”
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The Aug. 26 “By the Numbers” list of major hospitalist service contractors incorrectly transposed data for EmCare Hospital Medicine. The company contracts with 95 hospitals and has 610 affiliated...
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