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Cost-Saving Effort in Health Care Falls Short of Goals, Study Finds
August 5, 2014 by John DeGaspari Bundled payment demonstration provides lessons for future A pilot program intended to implement and…
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Hospitals And Health Plans See The Future Very Differently
Analysts who fear health spending is accelerating got plenty of evidence in Wall Street’s second-quarter results to support their thesis.…
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42 Changes to ObamaCare…So Far
By Tyler Hartsfield and Grace-Marie Turner By our count at the Galen Institute, more than 42 significant changes already have…
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Hospital Mergers Are Out. ‘Strategic Alliances’ Are In. Is Obamacare Responsible?
by Dan Diamond, California Healthline Contributing Editor Lloyd Dean’s hospitals treat more than 5 million Californians per year. And he has…
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Massachusetts mulls tax credit to offset medical device tax
July 30, 2014 by Brad Perriello Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick establishes a commission to study a possible tax credit to offset the…
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Exclusive: IRS collected $1.4B in medtech excise tax payments in 2013
July 28, 2014 by Brian Johnson The IRS calculates that medtech companies paid the federal government $1.4 billion in medical device excise…
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The Problem With ‘Pay for Performance’ in Medicine
Aaron E. Carroll – @aaronecarroll “Pay for performance” is one of those slogans that seem to upset no one. To most…
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Huge Blow to ObamaCare: Federal Court Strikes Down Crucial Part of Healthcare Law
Dan Mangan | @_DanMangan In a dramatic split decision, two federal appeals court panels on Tuesday disagreed on whether billions of…
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Why Improving Access to Health Care Does Not Save Money
Aaron E. Carroll @aaronecarroll One of the oft-repeated arguments in favor of the Affordable Care Act is that it will…
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Tax Reform, Not Tax Inversions, Will Rescue The U.S. Pharma, Bio, And Medical-Device Industries
John R. Graham , Contributor A Goldman Sachs research note explains the stakes in the current spate of tax-inversion deals by U.S. firms…
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Blue Cross’ $65 Billion Move Away From Fee-For-Service Medicine
In the latest blow to fee-for-service medicine, the nation’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans say they are spending more than…
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MOC at the Point of a Gun
Posted on July 9, 2014 by Meg Edison MD The American Board of Pediatrics’ ever-increasing Maintenance of Certification demands have become so time consuming, expensive…
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64% of Orthopedic Surgeons Think Income Will Drop With Health Insurance Exchanges: 5 Key Statistics
Written by Laura Dyrda | Tuesday, 08 July 2014 17:22 More than half of orthopedic surgeons feel their compensation will decrease as…
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Total knee replacements: A race to the bottom
CLARK VENABLE, MD | CONDITIONS | JULY 6, 2014 A total knee replacement is a very common operation and more than 700,000 of them are performed…
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How Health Care Costs Wrecked Our Measures of Economic Growth
BY MARK GIMEIN U.S. growth numbers were revised this week, with fresh data for the first quarter showing the economy shrinking…
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