By Melanie Evans | August 10, 2013
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With not-for-profit healthcare systems facing growing scrutiny of their executive compensation, median total pay for the top 25 highest paid CEOs climbed 12% as base salaries grew 3% year over year. FULL STORY »
By Beth Kutscher | August 03, 2013
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The proposed $3.9 billion tie-up between Community Health Systems and HMA highlights the rise of the hospital mega-system as a response to declining inpatient volumes and payment rates. FULL STORY »
By Beth Kutscher | August 03, 2013
| Print Magazine
Community Health Systems faces pressure to sweeten its $3.9 billion cash and stock bid for Health Management Associates, with HMA's largest shareholder calling it too low. FULL STORY »
The entry of Medicaid managed-care insurers into the exchange market will test whether a broader segment of Americans will accept the economy-class health coverage. FULL STORY »
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 »
Meeting cost-saving targets and earning a bonus under Medicare's Pioneer accountable care experiment eluded more than a dozen participants in the program, and the risk of future losses prompted some to race for the exit. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans and Jessica Zigmond | July 20, 2013
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Medicare Pioneer ACOs that saved money on patient care—and will share Medicare's $140 million in total savings for 2012—credit their success to an intense focus on improving coordination and care for the most complex and costly patients. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks | July 13, 2013
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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 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 »
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 »
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