| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare
| Utah Medicaid expansion met with skepticism | | Monday, July 20, 2015 6:45 PM | |
| | News of Republican Gov. Gary Herbert expanding Medicaid in Utah is being met with a heavy amount of skepticism from policy and patient advocacy insiders. The plan would cover about 126,000 people and proposes Utah and local providers chip in to... |
| CMS to test concurrent coverage of hospice and curative care | | Monday, July 20, 2015 5:15 PM | |
| | Terminally ill patients no longer will have to give up curative treatment to receive Medicare-paid hospice care, under a limited new program the CMS will start testing with 140 hospice providers as early as January. |
| Prime issues $700 million in debt as growth continues | | Monday, July 20, 2015 5:00 PM | |
| | Prime Healthcare Services is shoring up its balance sheet for more takeovers. The Ontario, Calif.-based company plans to issue $700 million in new debt that will fund previously announced deals. |
| Planned Parenthood says video part of decadelong harassment | | Monday, July 20, 2015 5:00 PM | |
| | Planned Parenthood told Congress Monday that a secretly recorded video released last week by an anti-abortion group is fraudulent and part of a decadelong pattern of illegal harassment aimed at prohibiting abortion and intimidating women and doctors. |
| Baptist Health System continues steady growth | | Monday, July 20, 2015 4:00 PM | |
| | Baptist Health System was buoyed by a slight uptick in emergency room visits and admissions during the six months ended June 30, as the Birmingham, Ala.-based system comes off the heels of the recently agreed-upon joint venture with Tenet Healthcare... |
| Alzheimer's disease could be detected through saliva | | Monday, July 20, 2015 1:19 PM | |
| | A discovery found within saliva may someday lead to a test that can detect the likelihood for developing Alzheimer's disease before a patient begins to experience deterioration of their cognitive function. That early detection could lead to earlier... |
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