| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare
| Providers need to prepare for switch to chip cards | | Friday, May 22, 2015 4:00 PM | |
| | A national conversion from magnetic strip-based credit and debit cards to cards embedded with security enhancing computer chips is already underway and could prove a boon to providers, after some upfront costs and hassles. |
| Vision loss and poverty correlated | | Friday, May 22, 2015 2:45 PM | |
| | Researchers have found a correlation between poverty and severe vision loss. They also identified the South as having the most poor people with bad vision. Experts say the problem is not because there are a lack of optometrists. |
| Crosson named MedPAC chairman | | Friday, May 22, 2015 2:45 PM | |
| | The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has appointed former Kaiser Permanente executive Dr. Francis "Jay" Crosson to replace Glenn Hackbarth as chairman. |
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