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100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - 2013 (nominees' titles and affiliations)
May 04, 2013
The nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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How to fix the SGR | Evaluation and management services at issue
By Rich Daly | April 19, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Some see the stars aligning for a once-in-a-lifetime shift in the way clinicians are paid. But the future physician payment system could end up looking a lot like the past.
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It's not 1965 anymore | New technology requires new ways to pay for it
By Merrill Goozner | March 02, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Amid healthcare's rapidly changing technological landscape, one thing remains unchanged: the structure of how the nation pays for its senior citizen healthcare program.
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Late News: New hope for SGR repeal | Lowered cost estimate could finally motivate a fix
By Jessica Zigmond | February 16, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Momentum is building among House leaders to draft and introduce legislation this year that would repeal Medicare's troublesome sustainable growth-rate formula used to pay physicians, but upcoming budget battles could thwart those efforts.
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Budget fights could hinder action on SGR repeal
By Jessica Zigmond | February 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Momentum is building among House leaders to draft and introduce legislation this year that would repeal Medicare's troublesome sustainable growth-rate formula used to pay physicians, but upcoming budget battles could thwart those efforts.
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Controversial bonus program seen boosting Advantage plans
By Rich Daly and Jessica Zigmond | January 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A much-maligned CMS bonus program for Medicare Advantage plans may have helped improve the quality of such plans and averted deep drops in their enrollments, according to preliminary government data.
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Late News: MedPAC backs pay hike | Proposal would restore cuts in spending deal
By Rich Daly | January 12, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The panel that provides Congress with Medicare guidance sought to shield providers from looming payment cuts.
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Keep long-term-care, hospice rates static: MedPAC
By Rich Daly | January 11, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Medicare's primary advisory board urged Congress to keep pay rates unchanged for long-term-care hospital services and hospices in the next fiscal year, even if a scheduled 2% Medicare-wide provider cut goes into effect.
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MedPAC pushes 1% pay increase for hospitals
By Rich Daly | January 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Congress should give hospitals a 1% payment increase next year, not the pay cut that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may impose under the year-end fiscal cliff law, according to MedPAC.
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Baucus working to stall doc pay cut
By Rich Daly | December 07, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Senate Democratic health policy leader is writing legislation to delay an impending Medicare physician pay cut, according to health policy sources.
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