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Obamacare's positive economic news | Improved insurance coverage may be just the boost the economy needs

By Merrill Goozner | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine

The never-ending and ill-informed debate in Washington over defunding Obamacare has almost entirely drowned out public understanding of the law's positive impact on the economy.
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Watch where these executives go from here

By Merrill Goozner | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine

Designating the Up & Comers among young healthcare leaders is no easy task. But if the past is prologue, the 12 men and women highlighted in this special issue of Modern Healthcare will clearly be people to watch in the years ahead.
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Out of their comfort zone | Dialysis provider DaVita needs to integrate big physician practice to move toward integrated care

By Beth Kutscher | September 14, 2013 | Print Magazine

With its acquisition of multispecialty medical group HealthCare Partners, dialysis giant DaVita has ventured beyond the realm of kidneys toward serving the whole patient.
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Curing the cancer crisis | Remedies needed: Better palliative care, patient-centered approach

By Merrill Goozner | September 14, 2013 | Print Magazine

Last week, the IOM declared a crisis in the system for delivering care to the more than 1.6 million who contract cancer and the 500,000 people who die each year from the disease.
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Healthcare designs flex their flexibility

By Andis Robeznieks | September 14, 2013 | Print Magazine

In this year's Modern Healthcare Design Awards program, it seems that more than ever, flexibility was on the minds of architects and their provider clients.
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Inside Oregon's Medicaid lab | A year into Oregon's Medicaid experiment, everyone is watching to see if accountable care can curb Medicaid costs

By Joe Rojas-Burke | September 07, 2013 | Print Magazine

On a recent Wednesday morning, a hospital in Portland, Ore., paged Dr. Christina Milano, a family physician, to notify her that one of her patients was in the emergency room. Within a half-hour, another hospital called when the same patient showed up in its ER.
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Power plays | Combined heat and power systems save money, reduce energy dependence, but regulations can unplug hospitals' plans

By Kerry Grens | September 07, 2013 | Print Magazine

The cost savings are attractive, but coming up with the money for a combined heat and power system, known a cogeneration, is a significant barrier.
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Nudging Medicaid | Charging beneficiaries can work—but only if the copays are well-designed

By Merrill Goozner | September 07, 2013 | Print Magazine

Should people newly eligible for Medicaid be treated differently from people getting coverage on the exchanges or, for that matter, from those who get coverage through their employers?
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An inside job? | Outsourcing—clinical and nonclinical—remains a popular option for supply- chain managers, but some systems are bringing services in-house

By Jaimy Lee | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine

Hospital systems are taking the cost-reduction lessons they learned with medical devices such as joint implants and are applying them to more obscure and less costly categories of hospital spending.
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Rumble over jailhouse healthcare | As states broaden outsourcing to private vendors, critics question quality of care and cost savings

By Beth Kutscher | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine

Healthcare services in Florida's prisons are undergoing a big overhaul this summer as the state hands over care for its more than 100,000 inmates to a private company.
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