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Calif. docs fighting legislative battles on scope of practice
By Andis Robeznieks | August 13, 2013
As healthcare reform expands coverage, nonphysician providers are seeking to expand their portfolio of licensed services and are facing intense opposition from doctors to their efforts.
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Vital Signs
Good website design could save consumers, government $9B on insurance exchanges, study says
By Jessica Zigmond | August 13, 2013
A new analysis suggests that smart design of the websites used for the new state insurance exchanges to enroll consumers in health plans could save consumers and the government more than $9 billion a year.
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Joseph Powell, former CEO of Baptist Memorial Health Care, dies
By Ashok Selvam | August 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Joseph Powell, the longtime president and CEO at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. in Memphis, has died at 86.
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Analysis shows overall improvements in care at N.Y. hospitals
By Michael Virtanen / Associated Press | August 11, 2013
A new analysis of New York hospital data showed a reduction in surgical death rates and improvements in treating serious illnesses over a decade despite higher post-surgical infections and deaths from operations where part of the skull is removed.
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Embracing ACOs | Private insurers forge string of provider deals for accountable care
By Melanie Evans | August 10, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
In a growing number of contracts with providers, private health insurers are embracing accountable care, a payment model that holds hospitals and doctors jointly responsible for controlling costs and improving patient outcomes.
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Leapfrog defends methodology and other letters
By Modern Healthcare | August 10, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The American Hospital Association wrote to Modern Healthcare last week, “Leapfrog tool 'seriously flawed', unhappy with Leapfrog Group's calculator that helps purchasers identify the millions of dollars in...
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Vital Signs
UnitedHealth's patient engagement program sees health improvements, study says
By Joseph Conn | August 06, 2013
A patient engagement and reporting program linked to financial incentives yielded multiple improvements in health measures for employees of UnitedHealth Group, according to a study published in the August issue of Health Affairs.
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Study: Blue Cross avoided $155 million in costs in medical home project
By Jay Greene, Crain's Detroit Business | August 05, 2013
David Share, M.D., senior vice president of value partnerships with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, has been shepherding the Blues' patient-centered medical home project during the five years of its existence.
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Former Cook County public health official Rothstein dies at 90
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Ruth Rothstein, the former chief of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services who was credited for turning around what was once an outdated public health system in Chicago into one of the country's leading models and was considered a major figure among public hospital leaders, has died at the age...
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Magazine
Late News: 'Enough is enough' | Legislators want ban on radiation self-referral
By Andis Robeznieks | August 03, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Federal legislators are pushing a ban on self-referral in radiation therapy in the wake of a U.S. Government Accountability Office report finding a massive jump in advanced radiation treatments for prostate cancer conducted at facilities owned by the referring physicians.
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