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Stop Making Your Team Read Your Mind: How to Set Clear Expectations

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readmymind

 

Clear Health Costs: Insurers’ Payments Vary More than Hospital Charges

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Money Physician

‘No cost basis for the difference,’ says former hospital CEO

Next Session of Congress: It’s All About the Money

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Budget issues will predominate on the healthcare front, experts predict

Older, Heavier Americans Fuel a $4 Billion Knee Replacement Market

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How getting a new knee became one of the most popular surgeries in the country.

UCSF lures top pediatric heart surgeon back from Stanford’s Lucile Packard hospital

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Mark Laret, chief executive of UCSF Medical Center, has a new reason to smile, now that UCSF has lured a top pediatric cardiac surgeon from rival Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.

 

Seattle hospital CEO heads to China, inks partnership with big hospital system

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Swedish Health Services CEO Tony Armada is traveling in Asia, where he is visiting Chinese and Korean hospitals and discussing possible partnerships with those hospitals to improve patient care.

 

Longtime CEO of top Bay Area medical group to retire

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Dr. Richard Slavin is chief executive officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, a Sutter Health affiliate.

Richard Slavin, M.D., longtime chief executive officer at the 1,400-doctor Palo Alto Medical Foundation, one of the region’s largest and most influential medical groups, plans to retire Jan. 4.

Will payer mergers stifle competition? Let us know (Poll)

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With Anthem set to buy Cigna and Aetna buying Humana, AHA executives sent a letter last week to the Department of Justice's antitrust division over concerns that consolidation among those largest payers could spell disaster for competition.