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GOP offers Obama short-term plan to raise debt ceiling
By Jessica Zigmond | October 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
House Republican leaders are poised to offer President Barack Obama a plan that calls for a short-term hike in the nation's debt limit without immediately reopening the government.
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Surgical supply company sues HHS after alert on physician-owned distributorships
By Joe Carlson | October 10, 2013
A government fraud alert last spring warning of the “inherently suspect” nature of physician-owned surgical supply companies led to swift drop-off in business. Now one firm is suing HHS.
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Robert Wood Johnson, Rutgers to create unique ACO
By NJBiz.com (Somerset, N.J.) | October 10, 2013
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Health System is collaborating with Rutgers University to create a Medicare accountable care organization that will be unique in New Jersey as it will involve academic researchers working with physicians.
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Reform Update: Hospitals slash labor costs to make up for lost Medicare revenue
By Melanie Evans | October 09, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Hospitals spend less on operations—largely by squeezing labor costs—to make up for lost revenue when Medicare cuts hospital prices, according to a new study.
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IT leaders outline EHR payment audit pitfalls
By Joseph Conn | October 09, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Detailed record-keeping is essential to surviving an EHR incentive payment audit and it's doubly important with Stage 2 meaningful use and ICD-10, IT leaders like Pam McNutt say.
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Questionable design blamed for health website woes
By Carla K. Johnson and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press | October 09, 2013
A decision by the Obama administration to require that consumers create online accounts before they can browse for insurance plans appears to have led to glitches that have frustrated customers.
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UnitedHealthcare cuts doctors from Medicare Advantage network
By Hartford (Conn.) Courant | October 09, 2013
Thousands of doctors in Connecticut are being dropped from UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage plans next year. A UnitedHealthcare spokesman confirmed the cuts but said he did not have an exact number of doctors affected.
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Vital Signs
Increased nurse staff levels tied to lower odds of Medicare readmissions penalties, study says
By Ashok Selvam | October 08, 2013
Nursing unions wanting higher staffing ratios have more ammunition thanks to a new study concluding that increasing nurse staffing levels could help hospitals avoid Medicare penalties for avoidable readmissions.
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Shutdown dims hope of doc-pay fix, MGMA attendees told
By Andis Robeznieks | October 08, 2013
If Congress manages to get the government restarted and avert the debt ceiling crisis, lawmakers may have just enough time to renew their 10-year tradition of "kicking the can" on finding a replacement for the...
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Health law glitches: fatal or fleeting?
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press | October 08, 2013
Insurance companies and others say there's still enough time to fix the online enrollment system before uninsured Americans start getting coverage on Jan. 1.
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