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October 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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Reform Update: Big shifts seen in Mass. insurance market after rules limit consumer options
By Melanie Evans | October 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
As millions of Americans began to shop in newly created markets for health insurance, a new study of health plan choice in Massachusetts found major shifts in its health insurance market after the state set new rules that limit consumer options.
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Most healthcare provisions stripped from government-shutdown deal
By Harris Meyer | October 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
U.S. Senate leaders have agreed on a deal acceptable to the White House to end the government shutdown and temporarily raise the nation's debt ceiling, with almost all healthcare provisions stripped out. The deal would fund the government at current levels through Jan. 15, continuing the budget...
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CMS extends PQRS sign-up deadline
By Andis Robeznieks | October 16, 2013
Medical groups with 100 physicians or more were given an extra three days to register for the CMS Physician Quality Reporting System, formerly known as the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative.
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Quest Diagnostics to offer genetic tests for breast cancer risk
By Jaimy Lee | October 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Quest Diagnostics, one of the largest clinical laboratories in the U.S., started offering BRCA testing this week as it seeks to tap into the lucrative breast cancer genetic testing market. But Quest and other companies that plan to offer less-expensive testing still face legal battles with the...
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WellStar latest to work with Walgreen retail clinics
By Modern Healthcare | October 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
WellStar Health System's urgent-care centers and physicians will work with retail clinics in eight Walgreen Co. stores to expand the scope of services available and help manage the treatment of chronic diseases.
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L.A. County orders mandatory flu shots for all healthcare personnel
By CBSLA.com | October 16, 2013
Getting a flu shot will be a requirement this year for all healthcare personnel in Los Angeles County. County Public Health Director Dr. Jonathan E. Fielding issued an order Tuesday mandating that healthcare personnel in each licensed acute care hospital, skilled nursing facility, and intermediate...
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Abbott surprises with huge dividend boost, shares jump
By Reuters | October 16, 2013
Abbott Laboratories reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings on Wednesday, helped by strong demand for its diagnostics, and surprised investors with a dividend increase of more than 50%.
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States refusing Medicaid expansion leave 5.2M poor people without coverage, lose out on $555M
By Harris Meyer | October 16, 2013
Two new studies highlight the heavy impact that state decisions not to expand Medicaid under the federal healthcare reform law will have on low-income Americans and community health centers that serve them.
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Marquette General CEO Muller to retire
By Modern Healthcare | October 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Gary Muller will step down as CEO of Marquette (Mich.) General Hospital at the end of the year.
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More candid pics from 2013 Best Places to Work
By Modern Healthcare | October 16, 2013
See the new pictures in our updated gallery of photos submitted by this year's Best Places to Work winners. Find out how these companies are having fun and inspiring their teams.
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Reform Update: Federal exchange won't transfer Medicaid applications until November
By Steven Ross Johnson | October 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Americans submitting their applications for Medicaid through the federal government's online insurance marketplace in 36 states may want to contact their state Medicaid agencies for faster results.
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State exchanges report strong interest from young people
By Maureen McKinney | October 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A few states running their own insurance exchanges are touting high levels of interest from young people, a demographic group widely viewed as the linchpin of the healthcare reform law's success.
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Reform remains sticking point in shutdown, debt ceiling fight
By Jessica Zigmond | October 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
With less than two days before the country will reach its borrowing limit, Congress remained stalled on how to reopen the government and raise the nation's debt ceiling, with provisions of the healthcare reform law still a sticking point in the negotiations.
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Vital Signs
Group looks to IOM to help reduce diagnosis errors
By Andis Robeznieks | October 15, 2013
It's not easy to start a movement, but a new group of physicians and healthcare researchers are hoping to do so. They are looking to the Institute of Medicine to bolster their efforts to reduce diagnosis errors that lead to delayed or inappropriate treatments.
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Medicare had messy rollout, too
By Bloomberg.com | October 15, 2013
There are rumblings that the glitches attending the rollout of the Affordable Care Act—along with the relentless campaign to sabotage or delay it in numerous states—mean the program is dead on arrival. But the history of an equally controversial and vast government effort, Medicare,...
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Sizzling drug sales help J&J beat 3Q forecasts
By Reuters | October 15, 2013
Johnson & Johnson reported better-than-expected third-quarter results, as strong growth for prescription drugs overshadowed weaker contributions from its medical device and consumer products businesses.
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Freischlag to oversee UC Davis Health System
By Modern Healthcare | October 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Dr. Julie Freischlag was named vice chancellor for human health sciences at UC Davis and dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine.
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Reform Update: Many docs still on the fence about exchange participation
By Andis Robeznieks | October 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A new MGMA survey finds that more than half of physician practices say they had not yet decided whether they will participate in health plans sold on the new state insurance exchanges.
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Vital Signs
Hospitals with expensive tech, high patient satisfaction have highest-paid CEOs
By Ashok Selvam | October 14, 2013
What not-for-profit hospitals pay their CEOs has little to do with financial performance or quality scores, but the top executives generally make more at hospitals with expensive technology and high marks in patient satisfaction, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Dignity, Optum form revenue cycle management company
By Melanie Evans | October 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Dignity Health, a large and expanding health system based in San Francisco, has formed a revenue cycle management company in a joint venture with Optum, a subsidiary of insurer UnitedHealth Group.
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Effort connects medical homes with 'essential' IT tools
By Andis Robeznieks | October 14, 2013
While the patient-centered medical home has been touted as the foundation for a better coordinated and more efficient healthcare system, experts now say medical home practices need to be connected to other parts of the healthcare system. To this end, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative...
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DuPree named CMO, VP of Joint Commission's Center for Transforming Healthcare
By Maureen McKinney | October 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Joint Commission has named Dr. Erin DuPree chief medical officer and VP of the organization's Center for Transforming Healthcare.
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Obesity surgery coverage balloons the cost of some plans
By Washington Post | October 14, 2013
Consumers shopping for health coverage in new online marketplaces may scratch their heads when they come to a handful of plans in Virginia: Why do some cost more than $1,800 a month? The reason: Those premiums reflect an add-on benefit for a type of costly surgery for obesity which makes them up to...
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A job engine sputters as hospitals cut staff
By USA Today | October 14, 2013
Hospitals, a reliable source of employment growth in the recession and its aftermath, are starting to cut thousands of jobs amid falling insurance payments and inpatient visits.
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Mercy to transfer Ark. hospital to CHI
By Modern Healthcare | October 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Four months after dropping a deal with a different suitor because of regulatory hurdles, Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy health system plans to transfer its Hot Springs, Ark., hospital and physician clinic to Catholic Health Initiatives.
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