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| Feds delay enforcement of home care wage rule | | Friday, September 11, 2015 5:15 PM | |
| | The U.S. Labor Department won't start enforcing its new rule requiring higher pay for many home healthcare workers just yet, despite a recent court decision upholding the rule, the department announced Friday. |
| NIH releases potentially lifesaving blood pressure study results | | Friday, September 11, 2015 3:11 PM | |
| | The National Institutes of Health has released initial study results that indicate lowering blood pressure rates to a systolic rate of 120 reduces the rate of cardiac events by nearly a third and the risk of death by almost a quarter compared to a... |
| Entresto's cost-effectiveness questioned | | Friday, September 11, 2015 3:00 PM | |
| | Entresto, the newly approved medication for the treatment of congestive heart failure, offers a "small to substantial" net benefit compared with current care approaches, but its annual cost would need to be $1,000 less than its list... |
| Hip and knee bundled payment test could be DOA without major changes | | Friday, September 11, 2015 2:45 PM | |
| | Providers say a CMS model to have 800 U.S. hospitals participate in a test of bundled payments for hip and knee replacements would have to be changed significantly in order to succeed. They're asking the CMS to delay the start date, make it... |
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