Brown & Toland leaves Pioneer ACO, declines to join Next Generation

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/brown-toland-declines-participate-pioneer-next-gen-despite-success?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonuqnJde%2FhmjTEU5z16ukvX6%2B%2Fh4kz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcBmPL3YDBceEJhqyQJxPr3MLtINwNlqRhPrCg%3D%3D

Company cites upcoming program changes as reason for exiting the program, despite some success in first three years.

Screws Tighten on 340B Program

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=HEP&content_id=324594##

Medicine and Dollars

A MedPAC recommendation to reduce by 10% Medicare payment rates for 340B hospitals’ separately payable Part B drugs has been greeted with a chorus of boos from hospital trade associations.

Medicare Part D’s Importance Extends Far Beyond The Drug Benefit It Provides

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/01/15/medicare-part-ds-importance-extends-far-beyond-the-drug-benefit-it-provides/

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Experts predict reimbursement changes for 2016

http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/managed-healthcare-executive/news/experts-predict-reimbursement-changes-2016

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How Postacute Care is Evolving

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=FIN&content_id=323688##

Hospital Hallway

With shared interests in reducing readmission rates and associated Medicare payment penalties, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities are in the vanguard of an evolutionary movement.

Reflections from Health Republic’s top exec as business winds down

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/health-care-inc/2015/12/reflections-from-health-republics-top-exec-as.html?ana=e_ptl_hc&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1450463409

Going Out of Business

Ambulatory surgical centers could soon receive EHR incentive payments

http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/ambulatory-surgical-centers-could-soon-receive-ehr-incentive-payments/410804/

The Electronic Fairness Act of 2015

Implementation Of The Biosimilars Provisions Of The ACA — Where Are We Now?

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/12/14/implementation-of-the-biosimilars-provisions-of-the-aca-where-are-we-now/

Blog_MedicalResearch

Why Medicare could eventually become the basis for our single-payer healthcare system

http://www.fiercehealthfinance.com/story/why-medicare-could-eventually-become-basis-our-single-payer-healthcare-syst/2015-12-14?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvqjKce%252FhmjTEU5z14ukkX6a2lMI%252F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ARMBjN6%252BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk

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