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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare BREAKING: TeamHealth to acquire IPC for $1.6B 9:38:11 AM Physician staffing provider Team Health announced Tuesday it will acquire acute hospitalist and post-acute provider group IPC Healthcare in an all-cash transaction of about $1.6 billion. Aetna's Q2 profit mushrooms after sustaining low medical costs 8:39:00 AM Aetna raised its earnings outlook yet again after the health insurance behemoth posted second-quarter earnings that blew away expectations. Senate blocks GOP bill to halt federal funds for Planned Parenthood Monday, August 03, 2015 8:00 PM The Senate blocked a Republican drive Monday to terminate federal funds for Planned Parenthood, setting the stage for the GOP to try again this fall amid higher stakes -- a potential government shutdown that could echo into next year's... Community Health Systems to spin off 38 hospitals, shift focus to larger markets Monday, August 03, 2015 6:45 PM Community Health Systems plans to shed 38 hospitals, most of them in small markets, and shift its focus to large markets and regional networks. The hospitals and a consulting subsidiary will be spun off into a new publicly traded company. Most hospitals face 30-day readmissions penalty in fiscal 2016 Monday, August 03, 2015 6:35 PM Most hospitals will get less money from Medicare in fiscal 2016 because too many patients return within 30-days of discharge. Less than 25% of hospitals subject to the program targeting readmissions did well enough to escape the penalty. New York health exchange plans get average 7.1% rate bump Monday, August 03, 2015 5:00 PM Health insurance premiums on New York's state-run exchange will go up by an average of 7.1% next year. But rates differ greatly by payer, plan type and region, highlighting the difficulties of relying on crude averages. Hospitals receive little from CMS inpatient payment rule Monday, August 03, 2015 4:15 PM The CMS finalized widely panned proposals on new quality measures and site-neutral payments and declined to say whether the agency plans to extend the enforcement delay on the two-midnight rule governing short hospital stays. Scott wants Medicaid insurance, hospital contracts examined Monday, August 03, 2015 3:30 PM Florida Gov. Rick Scott is targeting health insurers participating in the state's Medicaid program, accusing them of negotiating hospital rates that are too high. Indiana medical software company hack affected 3.9M people Monday, August 03, 2015 2:00 PM A federal agency says the private information of 3.9 million people may have been exposed when the networks of Medical Informatics Engineering were hacked.

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