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A period of adjustment | Post-acute providers feel growing pains as they shift to Medicare and Medicaid managed-care contracting

By Jessica Zigmond | October 12, 2013 | Print Magazine

Post-acute providers such as nursing homes are facing the kind of managed-care growing pains hospitals experienced in the 1990s.
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Device-tax repeal surfaces as key in budget stalemate | But White House says it's unwilling to compromise until government shutdown ends

By Jaimy Lee and Jessica Zigmond | October 12, 2013 | Print Magazine

There are growing signs that repeal of the medical-device tax, fervently sought by the politically potent device industry, may be a key element in resolving the impasse in Congress over the budget and raising the debt ceiling.
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A make-or-break year for health IT | With ICD-10 looming in 2014, CIOs face tough decisions in deploying resources

By Merrill Goozner | October 12, 2013 | Print Magazine

Information technology officers and their CEOs will be forced to make some tough choices in the months ahead. On a battlefield, it is called triage.
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New points of entry | Stand-alone ERs offer systems path to higher volume

By Beth Kutscher | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine

Full-service hospital operators long have viewed specialty providers with suspicion. But they increasingly are adopting the philosophy of, “If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.”
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Finding their way home | Despite mixed evidence, providers increasingly look to medical homes for better care, cost savings

By Andis Robeznieks | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine

Many healthcare providers and payers are moving forward with patient-centered medical homes to improve primary care and care coordination and reduce costs, despite mixed research evidence of the cost-effectiveness of this major delivery system reform.
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Just the beginning | Growing demand for insurance could lead to transparency, competition

By Merrill Goozner | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine

The rollout of the health insurance exchanges last week revealed a reality never mentioned by the Republicans on Capitol Hill who shut down the U.S. government.
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Meet 40 companies on healthcare's fast track

By Merrill Goozner | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine

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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Those damaging sequestration cuts | Continuing resolution's short-term savings will result in long-term costs

By Merrill Goozner | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine

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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The moment of truth | As the state insurance exchanges prepare to open Oct.1, proponents and opponents alike wonder what the response will be

By Maureen McKinney | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine

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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Sparking controversy | Rise in e-cigarette use has public health experts questioning their safety, effectiveness as harm-reduction device

By Steven Ross Johnson | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine

The rise of electronic cigarettes has triggered a sharp debate over whether the devices can play a role in helping the nation's estimated 44 million adult smokers kick their habit.
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