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Time is running out for several undecided Medicare Pioneer accountable care organizations to choose whether to stay or go.
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Big changes have arrived for healthcare organizations seeking to leverage investments in health information technology and meeting government mandates and incentive payment program requirements. But physician informaticists must balance these multiple concerns and still keep patient care at the...
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EMH Healthcare, Elyria, Ohio, has inked a letter of intent to officially explore joining University Hospitals, located about 35 miles east in Cleveland.
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Regarding “Myriad stock falls as competitors offer lower prices for gene testing”: The decision was a solid and sound decision, correctly stating that Myriad did not invent anything.
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Baptist Health CFO Mike Lukaszewski explains the Florida system's move toward a "holistic" investment strategy. Lukaszewski was interviewed at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's annual conference in Orlando, Fla.
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Commercial insurers participating in accountable care arrangements are less likely than Medicare to use payment models featuring the “upside-only” shared savings preferred by providers.
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Economists and policymakers are puzzling over how big an impact the Great Recession and its aftermath are having on reducing healthcare spending, whether the economic upswing will unleash pent-up demand for care, and whether the current lower spending is actually good for Americans' health.
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Hospital visits are shorter and less costly for all patients in markets with more of them enrolled in Medicare managed care, according to new research. The results suggest hospitals make far-reaching changes to delivery as incentives to better manage care increase.
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Wall Street investors hungry for advance information on upcoming federal health-care decisions repeatedly held private discussions with Obama administration officials, including a top White House adviser helping to implement the Affordable Care Act.
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HHS' inspector general's office is launching an in-depth investigation into cases where Medicare hospice beneficiaries get inpatient care, following unusual billing patterns that surfaced during recent research on the $1.1 billion industry.
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