| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | GOP pragmatists protest tea party shutdown tactics | | | Rank-and-file Republican lawmakers are increasingly protesting the tactics of tea party colleagues who demand that legislation to keep the government open also take away federal funding for Planned Parenthood. |
| Government funding bill could let VA finish Denver hospital | | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 6:15 PM | |
| | The Veterans Affairs Department could get enough money to finish its budget-busting medical center outside Denver if Congress passes a stop-gap measure to avert a government shutdown, but final approval of the deal remained uncertain Wednesday. |
| Health systems eye new projects as confidence increases | | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 4:30 PM | |
| | Healthcare providers plan to spend more on new infrastructure and information technology as the economy and their finances improve. But the scope of these projects likely will remain small and will be funded by cash rather than new debt, according... |
| Blog: Billboard campaign counters VA claims of improved access | | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 4:15 PM | |
| | Veterans Affairs Department leaders have been telling Congress that wait times have decreased and access has increased at VA healthcare facilities. But not everyone is buying it and some critics are spreading their message. |
| Blog: Jodi Daniel lists her 'greatest hits' at ONC | | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:00 PM | |
| | Among them are e-prescribing and navigating various Stark and anti-kickback exemptions for hospitals and health systems that subsidize the cost of extending their EHR systems to office-based physicians, Daniel said. |
| Generic drugs are potentially high-priced apples, ripe for the picking | | Wednesday, September 23, 2015 1:13 PM | |
| | A pharmaceutical company's move to raise the price of a generic drug by more than 5,000% has some pointing to the lack of regulation over the market. Experts say companies are acquiring generics to drive up their prices and can do that because there... |
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