Costs news and information

Maryland has submitted a plan to the federal government to modernize the state's all-payer rate setting system for hospital services, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Friday.
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A recent survey of some 2,500 doctors conducted by Dr. Jon Tilburt at the Mayo Clinic and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association was full of good news for those of us who believe that, as physicians, we have a big role to play in controlling healthcare costs. It reveals...
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Modern Healthcare's editorial webinar“Cost Saving in Device Procurement: Innovative Strategies on Physician Preference Items” explored...
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Earlier this year, Allegiance Health in Jackson County, Mich., began investigating whether to join Medicare's shared-savings program after seeing it was losing patients to neighboring counties.
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A credit analyst for not-for-profit healthcare providers is cautioning that the new state health insurance exchanges may introduce more short-term risk than benefit.
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In the healthcare environment of the future, quality outcomes and population management, both of which will be tied to reimbursement, will be key issues for healthcare executives to stay on top of. Technology used to harness, interpret, coordinate and optimize data created by patients' different...
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Digital Technology Impacting Healthcare is a Modern Healthcare three-part webinar series sponsored by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA).
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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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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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Workplace clinic operator QuadMed announced on Oct. 9 that it will acquire Novia CareClinics within the next 30 days.
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