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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a revised toolkit hospitals can use to lower their rates of preventable readmissions, particularly among patients with limited English proficiency and patients from diverse backgrounds. The Re-Engineered Discharge Toolkit is based on Project...
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California became the fifth state—and by far the largest—to win approval of a CMS demonstration project that will put beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid into managed-care plans. The agreement between the California Department of Health Care Services and the CMS will...
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HHS delivered its final rule on the federal funding to cover the full cost of new Medicaid beneficiaries under the healthcare reform law, but the department is still accepting comments on the methodology states can use to determine whether a new beneficiary qualifies for the enhanced funding.
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The Food and Drug Administration plans to require the manufacturers of automated external defibrillators to submit pre-market approval applications for those devices as part of a broader effort to reclassify how some high-risk devices are regulated.
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Policymakers and healthcare economists have observed and been troubled by significant variations in what Medicare pays for healthcare in different parts of the country.
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Hospitals in states that elect not to expand their Medicaid programs could find their bottom lines squeezed in the coming years as they're hit with higher charity-care costs and fewer insured patients than envisioned under the federal healthcare reform law. A report from Moody's Investors Service...
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Primary care was a winner in this year's National Resident Matching Program match day, with the number of students choosing primary-care specialties rising by nearly 400 to 7,328, according to the NRMP, which brings together specialty programs with applicants using a computer program based on the...
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The American Hospital Association is not backing down from its lawsuit against the CMS that claims healthcare providers have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in reimbursements through a billing policy that unfairly penalizes providers who submit incorrect Medicare claims.
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Wary employers are warning of possible future job cuts as they face the “unknown effects” of healthcare reform, according to a newly released look at the U.S. economy. Businesses, economists and market experts surveyed for the Federal Reserve's Beige Book report, an anecdotal snapshot...
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A jury Friday awarded $8.3 million to a former prison guard who accused Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary of knowingly marketing a faulty hip implant that was later recalled. Jurors found that the ASR XL implant was defectively designed and caused metal poisoning and other health...
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