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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare Medicare proposes paying for end-of-life counseling in sweeping physician payment rule Wednesday, July 08, 2015 6:45 PM In a draft of Medicare's first physician payment rule since Congress scrapped the sustainable growth-rate formula, the CMS proposes paying for end-of-life counseling and revises several quality incentive programs that will be rolled into a new... Not-for-profit hospital's tax exemption case could signal trouble for others Wednesday, July 08, 2015 6:15 PM Many not-for-profit hospitals across the country could potentially lose their tax exemption if they became subject to the same type of reasoning that recently led a New Jersey court to erase one hospital's property-tax exemption in that state,... Egg shortage hits healthcare industry Wednesday, July 08, 2015 6:13 PM Eggs are important to healthcare, and not just for feeding patients: They're used to make vaccines too. That's why a looming shortage of the protein has vaccine makers and hospital foodservice directors on high alert. Fingerhut out as executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations Wednesday, July 08, 2015 5:30 PM Gary Fingerhut has left the Cleveland Clinic after the FBI told the hospital system that he made financial transactions that violated the hospital system's internal policies. Lack of sexual assault nurses puts survivors at risk Wednesday, July 08, 2015 3:00 PM Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has recently raised concerns about the availability of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners at hospitals that serve her constituents in Washington state. Advocates say a lack of resources has made this a problem nationwide that... 45 states get an F on healthcare price transparency Wednesday, July 08, 2015 2:53 PM State progress on healthcare pricing transparency has slowed around the country, and some states have even stepped backward in providing clearer information to consumers about their healthcare costs. Blog: Omnicare agrees to settle with government in anti-kickback suit Wednesday, July 08, 2015 1:55 PM Omnicare and the federal government plan to settle a lawsuit accusing Omnicare of accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks from Abbott Laboratories in exchange for pushing doctors to prescribe a certain drug to dementia patients, according to... Blog: Cerner lands guppy, but big Defense IT fish is still out there Wednesday, July 08, 2015 1:38 PM Cerner Corp. announced Wednesday that the U.S. Army awarded it a $16.3 million contract for pathology department laboratory software. But Cerner and three others are vying for a much larger contract for an electronic health-record system across the... CVS quits U.S. Chamber in tobacco tiff; other health firms tout own anti-smoking efforts Wednesday, July 08, 2015 12:30 PM CVS Health is leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, saying the trade group's position on tobacco products is incompatible with CVS' focus on health. Whether other health firms will follow CVS' lead is an open question at this point.

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