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The agency overseeing implementation of most of the 2010 healthcare overhaul may finally be getting a confirmed leader, and it comes at a critical time for that complex effort.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has scheduled a confirmation hearing next week to consider President Barack Obama's nomination of Marilyn Tavenner to be CMS administrator.
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President Barack Obama's re-nomination of Marilyn Tavenner as administrator of the CMS on Thursday drew wide support from health industry leaders but an uncertain outlook on Capitol Hill.
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The healthcare industry is on the cusp of its most dramatic transformation since the advent of Medicare and Medicaid. As the new editor of Modern Healthcare, I have been granted a precious gift.
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President Barack Obama's re-election delivered healthcare executives some certainty that the bulk of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be implemented, yet little clue how the president and Congress will treat healthcare programs in their quest to control federal spending.
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Medicare and Medicaid will certainly have a place in federal lawmakers' pending deficit-reduction talks, and HHS agencies should prepare to see their funding levels cut as a result of those negotiations, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) told healthcare providers Thursday in...
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Any hospital executive knows the argument that healthcare in America is undermined by a reimbursement model that pays for procedures instead of outcomes.
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Imagine a hospital where the ICU's myriad devices seamlessly exchange data and where a patient's loss of dignity is viewed as a preventable harm on the same order as a fall or a bloodstream infection.
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Economists, physicians and policymakers have put forward alternative arguments for how to best curb health spending in separate papers published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Though they're at the low end of the physician pay scale, pediatricians are often found in leading activist or management roles in the healthcare system.
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