The closely watched Medicare Pioneer accountable care program finished its first year with modest cost savings while losing nearly one-third of its participants. FULL STORY »
By Merrill Goozner | July 20, 2013
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The first-year results from Medicare's Pioneer ACO pilot project showed all 32 of the provider participants met their quality improvement-reporting goals, but only 13 reduced costs. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks | July 13, 2013
| Print Magazine
Neonatologists registered the biggest increase in pay among the 23 specialties tracked in the 20th annual Modern Healthcare Physician Compensation Survey. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks | July 13, 2013
| Print Magazine
For hundreds of thousands of primary-care physicians across the country, the era of unreimbursed evaluation-and-management, or E&M, care may finally be coming to an end. FULL STORY »
By Merrill Goozner | July 13, 2013
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The Obama administration's one-year delay in the employer mandate continues to generate confused and contradictory responses that ignore the collapse of the employer-based insurance system. FULL STORY »
By Jonathan Block and Rich Daly | July 06, 2013
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Two days before Independence Day, the Obama administration launched a firecracker of an announcement: It would delay by a year the employer mandate set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2014. FULL STORY »
By John D. Thomas | July 06, 2013
| Print Magazine
On a recent business trip, I grabbed a copy of the in-flight magazine and was surprised by a tease on the cover for an article inside: “ADHD in Adults.” FULL STORY »
Most hospitals will face new rules for how they collect money from patients under health reform, prompting some boards to reconsider how their facilities identify and help those who can't pay. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
By Merrill Goozner | June 29, 2013
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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. FULL STORY »
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