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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare Blog: Is it smart to be stingy about covering addiction treatment? Monday, December 28, 2015 6:53 PM The conflict between health plans and providers over coverage of medication-assisted treatment for patients with opioid addiction raises questions about whether plan benefit designs are necessarily consistent with the broader public health goals. Catholic Health Initiatives' growth delivers gains in Q1 Monday, December 28, 2015 5:21 PM Catholic Health Initiatives ended its first quarter with an operating surplus, unlike a year ago, as expansion and patient demand helped boost revenue. But lousy investment return drained cash from the system's balance sheet and left CHI with a net... SEIU membership in Calif. grows with Kindred staffers Monday, December 28, 2015 3:15 PM More than 220 employees at Kindred Hospital La Mirada in California voted to join the Service Employees International Union. The SEIU's growing membership is trying to raise California's minimum wage to $15 an hour and fully fund Medi-Cal, the... CMS to launch RACs for Medicare Advantage Monday, December 28, 2015 3:00 PM During a time of growing interest in covering Medicare members, the CMS is looking to vastly expand audits of Medicare Advantage plans as a way to monitor insurers that may game the system to obtain higher payments. Health law reporting extension issued for employers Monday, December 28, 2015 3:00 PM The Treasury Department on Monday gave employers an extension of critical reporting requirements, as it seeks to manage some of the most complicated parts of the federal healthcare law. Planned Parenthood appeals ruling allowing Utah to cut funds Monday, December 28, 2015 12:45 PM The Utah chapter of Planned Parenthood has appealed a U.S. judge's ruling that allows the Republican governor to cut off federal funding to the organization. Not-for-profit hospital borrowing rebounds in 2015 Monday, December 28, 2015 11:43 AM Hospitals borrowed 50% more from long-term investors this year than in 2014, as potential savings from refinancing drew not-for-profit hospitals into the market, new data show. Some call for replacing the Cadillac tax with a better cost-control tool Monday, December 28, 2015 11:39 AM Now that Congress has delayed and probably killed the Affordable Care Act's tax on high-value employer health plans, two experts who disagree on most aspects of the ACA agree that Congress should craft a better cost-control mechanism. But the... Baseball analytics guru joins Scripps research institute Monday, December 28, 2015 11:37 AM Economist Paul DePodesta, a Harvard graduate, is the former assistant general manager of the Oakland Athletics. He used data analytics to transform the way MLB teams scout players. DePodesta will join the Scripps Translational Science Institute as...

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