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The Justice Department said it will not challenge the Greater New York Hospital Association's proposed gain-sharing program for its member hospitals.
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The nation's largest public hospital system announced its own pay-for-performance project, which will tie physician bonus payments to patient-satisfaction scores, readmission rates and other metrics.
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An analysis by Modern Healthcare would seem to bear out the contention that something is amiss with value-based purchasing, at least as it is currently structured.
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Hospitals remain under pressure to reduce supply costs, which will lead to lower margins for device manufacturers and an increased need for providers to not only reduce costs but also establish new forms of revenue within the supply chain.
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In one of the few pieces of significant legislation to win bipartisan support in 2012, Congress reauthorizes the Food and Drug Administration's user-fee acts for the drug and medical device industries and establishes first-time user-fee programs for the biosimilars and generic drug sectors.
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Pat Groner, a co-founder of the group purchasing organization Voluntary Hospitals of America and the original CEO of a company that would become four-hospital Baptist Health Care Corp., Pensacola, Fla., died Dec. 14 of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
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Hospitals won't see much change to their Medicare payments from bonuses and penalties tied to quality and patient satisfaction that will be awarded for the first time in the new year.
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One snapshot of capital spending by hospitals, physician groups and ambulatory-care centers found budgets were somewhat likelier to increase than to shrink this past year.
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The Internal Revenue Service issued its final regulations on the medical device excise tax, prompting renewed calls by manufacturers to repeal or delay implementation of the tax.
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The ongoing national drug shortage has reached such a critical state that the FTC has given a city-owned ambulance service permission to buy discounted pharmaceuticals from a local hospital as an “emergency humanitarian gesture,” even though such sales might potentially violate...
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