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. FULL STORY »
By Merrill Goozner | December 08, 2012
| Print Magazine
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. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | November 10, 2012
| Print Magazine
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. FULL STORY »
By Jessica Zigmond | November 08, 2012
| Basic Web
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... FULL STORY »
By Gregg Blesch | October 13, 2012
| Print Magazine
Any hospital executive knows the argument that healthcare in America is undermined by a reimbursement model that pays for procedures instead of outcomes. FULL STORY »
By Maureen McKinney | September 01, 2012
| Print Magazine
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
The biggest news at the American Health Lawyers Association annual meeting took place almost exactly 24 hours after the Chicago conference concluded on June 27, as the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 upheld the most controversial aspects of the much-maligned healthcare reform law. FULL STORY »
"You've boarded a boat, and you don't know where it's going," Dr. Donald Berwick told Harvard Medical School graduates in a speech published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, but, he added, you still made "a... FULL STORY »
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