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A week before open enrollment begins on the health insurance exchanges, President Barack Obama promoted the benefits of the ACA in a talk Tuesday with former President Bill Clinton.
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Seven systems that include 25 hospitals have formed an alliance to build expertise in population health management and capitalize on economies of scale without the complications of merging assets.
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I was reading with great interest the article by Jessica Zigmond on fraud, and I have to say that HHS' Office of the Inspector General and all the rest of the agencies are interested in nothing but lip service.
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A small group of healthcare providers took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to press their case that the business practices of group purchasing organizations are causing drug shortages.
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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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Premier's planned IPO and reorganization is designed to boost its capacity to compete in the emerging data analytics and consulting market at a time when some systems are turning away from GPOs.
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Premier, one of the nation's largest GPOs, filed for an initial public offering Monday, setting the company up to bring in new capital at a time when the hospital industry is under pressure to evolve.
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Like insurance company executives, the leaders of big healthcare vendors, supply companies and group purchasing organizations are seeing their roles and the nature of their influence changing. And, naturally, the bigger the organization, the bigger their influence.
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Modern Healthcare had the rare opportunity to interview a number of the honorees in our fifth Top Women in Healthcare program during our conference and gala in Nashville. Hear some of the industry's most important voices weigh in on some of the most crucial healthcare issues of the day.
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Facing declining revenue and reimbursement, hospital systems across the U.S. are making it a priority to sharply reduce spending on supplies including gloves, syringes and hip implants.
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