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Reform Update: IRS controversy reaches ACA

The tentacles of the Internal Revenue Service controversy have reached the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. On Wednesday, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduced legislation, the IRS Accountability Act, to halt funding to the IRS for new agents enforcing the ACA....

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Blog: Hospital construction delayed; blame the economy, reform

Indiana University Health wouldn't say anything more about shelving expansion plans for Methodist Hospital other than a brief e-mail that contained...

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Peer pressures

Melanie Evans | May 11, 2013
As CEO pay continues to draw heightened scrutiny, compensation comparisons used by governing boards to justify the payouts are coming under fire from...
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Growing scrutiny

Rich Daly and Rachel Landen | May 11, 2013
Last week's public unveiling of CMS' charges and reimbursements data for about 3,000 hospitals across the country painted an unflattering portrait of...
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Pushing for payment

Jaimy Lee | May 11, 2013
Some hospitals have been using low-dose CT scans in recent years to screen patients at high risk for lung cancer even though most payers, including...
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Cost sustainability

Dr. Manoj Jain and Dr. Bill Frist | May 18, 2013
We have done it. We have decreased the increase in the cost of healthcare. Let us explain. For three decades (1980–2009), the cost of...
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Focus on value

Leah Binder | April 27, 2013
"Of all the transformations reshaping American healthcare, none is more profound than the shift toward value.”
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The Affordable Care Act at age 3

Merrill Goozner | March 23, 2013
The Obama administration can justifiably look back with pride at year three of its signature healthcare reform law, the Patient Protection and...
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CMS data show wide variation in hospital billing

Rich Daly | May 08, 2013
(Updated) The CMS released data showing U.S. hospitals charge widely varying amounts for the same services and also illustrating the significant...
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Accretive replaces CEO Mary Tolan with former Dell exec

Kristen Schorsch, Crain's Chicago Business | April 02, 2013
Mary Tolan, the embattled CEO and co-founder of Accretive Health, has been replaced by Stephen Schuckenbrock, former president of Dell Services,...
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Senators seek overhaul of hospital payment system

Rich Daly | May 16, 2013
The GAO reported that 91% of hospitals paid by Medicare receive some dispensation or add-on to the program's standard payment system.
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Reform Update: ACO Pioneers may be mulling their options

Melanie Evans | May 15, 2013
As the deadline nears for Medicare's first accountable care organizations to decide whether they will continue with the initiative, at least one is...
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Unusual billing patterns spur probe of inpatient hospice care

Joe Carlson | May 06, 2013
HHS' inspector general's office is launching an in-depth investigation into cases where Medicare hospice beneficiaries get inpatient care, following...
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Low interest rates hitting healthcare systems' pension plans: S&P

Beth Kutscher | May 01, 2013
Not-for-profit healthcare systems continued to struggle with underfunded pension liabilities last year, and the situation has become even more...
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