Kaiser operating income drops 9.6% in Q1: 5 key points

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/kaiser-operating-income-drops-9-6-in-q1-5-key-points.html

OR Efficiencies

Stem cell ‘Wild West’ takes root amid lack of US regulation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/stem-cell-wild-west-takes-root-amid-lack-of-us-regulation/2015/05/17/1fa9617c-fcc6-11e4-8c77-bf274685e1df_story.html?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=17739647&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_s-ggvHM2uACxSU5a42WMZ0hIWJRlf5fMUWrLvOPjaBSExg9J3BiTUFkmfnvgk4PgO7Bmi-Kw0VmWqZ6OKNyYofAo__w&_hsmi=17739647

Skyrocketing Medicaid signups stir Obamacare fights

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/skyrocketing-medicaid-expansion-obamacare-republican-governors-118011.html?hp=t1_r&utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=17739647&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_iRQ9zOjuE-i7k43AqLDImeqznJ-wKKgbK5U9WsrPK3TArFSGGt6_dVJgpczYWhNQCpkUdQa8LMNMcF2F8juYGDmTZdQ&_hsmi=17739647

In this photo taken Thursday, July 10, 2014, a patient is assisted at Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton, N.C. A backlog of unpaid Medicaid claims, a shrinking reimbursement rate, and more carve-outs of services covered, rural community hospitals like Southeastern Regional in Robeson County, which is not a part of a larger corporate hospital group are struggling to stay afloat. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

How one hospital used data (and a little shame) to decrease C-Sections

How one hospital used data (and a little shame) to decrease C-Sections

Dollars and Stethescope

Cartiva closes out $8M Series D to bring its synthetic cartilage product geared at osteoarthritis to U.S. market

Cartiva closes out $8M Series D to bring its synthetic cartilage product geared at osteoarthritis to U.S. market

cartiva

Truven names top 15 health systems in America

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/slideshow/truven-names-top-15-health-systems-america?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojvK7BZKXonjHpfsX57u4rUa6zlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4HTcFgI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQ7LHMbpszbgPUhM%3D