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Healthcare's Hottest No. 18: Homecare Homebase

By Modern Healthcare | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine

What it does: Homecare Homebase provides customizable Web-based clinical, operational and financial software to the home-care and hospice industries.
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Healthcare's Hottest No. 27: HMS

By Modern Healthcare | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine

What it does: The company develops innovative cost-efficiency strategies for Medicaid managed-care plans, commercial healthcare programs as well as self-insured employers.
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Groups sue to halt key parts of Texas abortion law

By Will Weissert / Associated Press | September 28, 2013

More than a dozen women's healthcare providers in Texas sued the state Friday, attempting to block as unconstitutional key provisions of a strict new abortion law that drew massive protests and threw the Legislature into chaos before it was approved this summer.
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Houston to invest $1.6M in electronic medical records

By Houston Business Journal | September 25, 2013

The Houston City Council recently approved a $1.6 million contract with Oregon Community Health Information Network, a medical records company based in Portland.
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Reform Update: Calif. docs argue Medicaid pay cuts will undermine expansion

By Andis Robeznieks | September 23, 2013 | Basic Web

In an effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to block California's Medicaid pay cuts, doctors in the state are arguing that the lower rates will undermine the expansion of the state's Medicaid program.
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VHA names Dunleavy CFO

By Jaimy Lee | September 23, 2013 | Basic Web

VHA, a national healthcare purchasing network, hired Christopher Dunleavy as CFO of enterprise operations.
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2013 Up and Comers: Brett Lee

By Steven Ross Johnson | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine

It shouldn't have been a surprise that Brett Lee would one day work in the field of healthcare, given his family background.
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CHI signs letter of intent to form partnership with Texas Heart Institute

By Beth Kutscher | September 16, 2013 | Basic Web

Catholic Health Initiatives has signed a letter of intent to partner with the Texas Heart Institute, ending uncertainty over whether CHI would gain control of the asset through its purchase of St. Luke's Episcopal Health System.
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Firm returns healthcare grant amid political heat

By Kelli Kennedy / Associated Press | September 15, 2013

A company that has for decades helped people enroll in Medicaid says it won't be able to sign up people for insurance under the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act because there is too much scrutiny over a so-called navigator program.
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Texas gov. touts effects of tort reform on doctors

By Christopher Sherman / Associated Press | September 10, 2013

Gov. Rick Perry chose a South Texas county that he said had been at the epicenter of the medical malpractice lawsuit "crisis" to commemorate the 10th anniversary of legislation capping how much juries could award plaintiffs.
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