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Two-midnight rule coming to an end; hospitals in line for one-time payment
Hospitals instead will receive a one-time payment of 0.6 percent next year to offset the 0.2 percent reduction implemented from 2014 through 2016.
Medical Schools Transform Teaching Methods to Strengthen, Sharpen Health Care Workforce
http://www.chcf.org/articles/2016/04/medical-schools-transform?_cldee=aGVucnlrb3R1bGFAeWFob28uY29t
After more than 40 years of stasis and stability, US medical schools are entering a period of transformation. A growing awareness that young doctors are coming out of training unprepared to meet the needs of 21st-century patients and communities has forced a profound rethinking of how people are taught to practice medicine.
Drug Regulation and Pricing — Can Regulators Influence Affordability?
Public debate in the 1990s over drugs’ clinical toxicity has given way to concerns about their financial toxicity. Although drug regulators aren’t supposed to be concerned with pricing, they’ve been drawn into an acrimonious debate over the cost of medicines.
Your vanishing health coverage: Employers are cutting retiree health benefits at a rapid rate
The shrinkage of employee retirement resources in the U.S. has been well documented, as employers shift more risk onto their workers. Less so is the rate at which employers have been eliminating healthcare benefits for retirees. As the Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported, retiree health coverage is becoming an endangered species.
Aetna Not Withdrawing From Any Health-Law Insurance-Exchange States
