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Physician advocates see signs of progress in the Senate Finance Committee's hearing Tuesday—the panel's first in six years on replacing Medicare's physician payment system.
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An eight-year initiative aimed at improving healthcare quality and lowering costs has entered its final phase, and its director says the project's lessons could serve as best practices for healthcare providers across the nation.
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Faced with declines in population and inpatient stays, Rhode Island can expect to see a costly surplus of hospital beds—the equivalent of a full hospital—in four years, according to a state health care council.
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It's not perfect but it's as good as it can be, given available data, and it's certain to improve over time.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Cambridge Health Alliance and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston agreed to form a clinical and academic affiliation. Cambridge Health Alliance, operated by a public authority established by the state Legislature in 1996, is composed of Cambridge...
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Just six months after Diane Pinakiewicz resigned her post as president of the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Boston-based not-for-profit has named
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Providers are coalescing around a five-year transition period before moving to a new Medicare physician payment system, according to a House Republican involved in developing the replacement.
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Louisiana is almost entirely rural with just 27% of its people living outside major metropolitan areas. But no state faced greater challenges in bringing electronic health records to its rural areas in the past decade.
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The Leapfrog Group has released its latest round of safety scores, and nearly three-quarters of hospitals maintained the same letter grade they received in November.
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New Medicaid research that garnered widespread attention from national health policy experts has not yet affected the expansion debate at the state level, but it could bolster national policy changes in the program.
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