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/

Blog_MedicarePartD

Experts predict reimbursement changes for 2016

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

cyber_security

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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CMS Penalizes 758 Hospitals Over Hospital-Acquired Conditions

http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2015/12/11/cms-penalizes-758-hospitals-over-hospital-acquired-conditions

How Safe is Your Hospital

AHA: Hospitals appeal nearly half of RAC claim denials

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/aha-hospitals-appeal-nearly-half-of-rac-claim-denials.html

OR Efficiencies

 

340B will go through big transition in 2016

http://www.fiercehealthfinance.com/story/340b-will-go-through-big-transition-2016/2015-12-07?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvqjKce%252FhmjTEU5z14ukkX6a2lMI%252F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ARMBjN6%252BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk

HRSA’s authority to oversee the program is being challenged