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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 Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Reform Update: Providers get same rates from plans inside, outside exchanges
By Melanie Evans | October 02, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Hospitals will be paid nearly the same rates by health plans sold through new state insurance exchanges as by plans sold to employers outside them, analysts and hospital system execs say.
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WellCare buys some assets of HealthFirst as it prepares to enter N.J. Medicaid market
By Rachel Landen | September 30, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
WellCare Health Plans, Tampa, Fla., announced on Sept. 30 that it has entered into an agreement to buy certain assets of Healthfirst Health Plan of New Jersey.
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Healthcare's Hottest No. 27: HMS
By Modern Healthcare | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
What it does: The company develops innovative cost-efficiency strategies for Medicaid managed-care plans, commercial healthcare programs as well as self-insured employers.
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Reform Update: Wisconsin proceeds with plan to trim Medicaid rolls
By Steven Ross Johnson | September 24, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
More than 56,000 low-income households in Wisconsin are expected to receive letters this week informing them that they will stop receiving Medicaid coverage at the end of the year. They will be told they can apply for federally subsidized private coverage in the state health insurance exchange,...
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High cost to care for growing number of elderly left out of Pa.'s Medicaid debate
By Marc Levy / Associated Press | September 21, 2013
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's plan to extend taxpayer-paid health insurance to hundreds of thousands of the working poor came with his repeated warnings that it is not an expansion of Medicaid and that he would not expand an entitlement program that he views as already too costly, bloated and...
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DaVita HealthCare Partners enters 5th state with Arizona Integrated Physicians
By Beth Kutscher | September 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
DaVita HealthCare Partners, Denver, is expanding its multispecialty medical group operations into a fifth state with the acquisition of Arizona Integrated Physicians.
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Outliers: Take that, 20-somethings!
By Modern Healthcare | September 14, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Results of a study on cognitive decline found aging brains may benefit from a video game. The study, published in the journal Nature, found attention and functional memory got a boost among older adults who played a custom-designed video game.
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Casenet names Masanotti as new CEO
By Modern Healthcare | September 06, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Casenet, a developer of care-management software, announced that CEO Kevin Brown plans to retire and that former MedQuist CEO Peter Masanotti will succeed him.
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University Hospitals, Summa part of four-hospital alliance in Ohio
By Timothy Magaw, Crain's Cleveland Business | September 06, 2013
Four of Ohio's healthcare powerhouses — including University Hospitals and Summa Health System — have forged an alliance designed to allow the institutions to share best practices as they brace for the health industry's dramatic shift from a system that pays hospitals for the amount of...
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