| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Ascension to pay workers at least $11 an hour | | | One of the nation's largest health systems, Ascension Health, will set a system-wide minimum wage of $11 an hour. The healthcare industry employed 2.8 million workers last year who earned the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour or less. |
| Press Ganey presses play on Wall Street | | Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:30 PM | |
| | Press Ganey Holdings stock began trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and closed at $27.50 per share. The patient-satisfaction measurement firm based in South Bend, Ind., announced Tuesday that 8.9 million shares would be sold at $25 per... |
| Grassley presses CMS on Medicare Advantage fraud | | Thursday, May 21, 2015 5:00 PM | |
| | Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing the CMS and the U.S. Justice Department to crack down on Medicare Advantage fraud -- an issue that's spurring a growing number of lawsuits and could be costing the government billions. |
| CMS blinks in Medicaid stare down with Florida | | Thursday, May 21, 2015 4:15 PM | |
| | The CMS is appearing to blink in its stare down with Florida over Medicaid expansion. The agency informed state officials that it tentatively plans to renew a waiver that has provided Florida billions in supplemental Medicaid funding to help... |
| AHIP CEO Karen Ignagni leaving for EmblemHealth | | Thursday, May 21, 2015 4:00 PM | |
| | Karen Ignagni, the longtime head of America's Health Insurance Plans, is leaving the industry's powerful lobbying group to become president and CEO of EmblemHealth, a financially troubled insurer based in New York. |
| Experts urge swift call for help to investigate data breaches | | Thursday, May 21, 2015 3:15 PM | |
| | IT staff at CareFirst Blue Cross and Blue Shield believed they contained a data hack back in June. But on Wednesday, the insurer said data on 1.1 million individuals was breached. Experts warn any delay in responding to a breach can aggravate... |
| Cancer docs back bundled pay | | Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:59 PM | |
| | A payment reform strategy offering consolidated billing codes and bundled cancer-care payments aims to "fundamentally restructure" the way cancer care is paid for in the U.S. |
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