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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare Dartmouth-Hitchcock exits Medicare's Pioneer ACO program Tuesday, October 20, 2015 6:45 PM Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is the latest to pull out of the CMS Innovation Center's Pioneer ACO initiative, Medicare's earliest and most aggressive test of accountable care, which has lost nearly half its initial cohort. Northwestern appoints new hospital and medical group presidents Tuesday, October 20, 2015 5:45 PM Julie Creamer has been named president of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and Dr. Howard Chrisman has been named president of Northwestern Medical Group, which includes doctors in the Greater Chicago area. Trinity Health sees more volume—but also rising labor costs Tuesday, October 20, 2015 5:00 PM Trinity Health, a health system that operates in 21 states, ended its fiscal year with a healthier margin as an improved economy and the Affordable Care Act's insurance expansion boosted demand for medical care. Soaring drug prices erode Fairview's margins Tuesday, October 20, 2015 4:30 PM Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, recorded a 28.8% decline in operating income in the second quarter compared to the year-ago quarter due to higher costs for hepatitis C drugs and the continuing shift in demand from inpatient to outpatient... Obama loses another round in House Republicans' ACA lawsuit Tuesday, October 20, 2015 4:00 PM A federal judge rejected the Obama administration's request to immediately appeal her ruling that House Republicans can sue the White House over its decision to fund the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing provisions without permission from Congress. American Cancer Society calls for later, less frequent mammograms Tuesday, October 20, 2015 3:30 PM It's the first update to the group's guidelines for breast cancer screening in more than a decade. It comes after growing confusion over screening ages, which many organizations have failed to agree on. Banner prepares to issue new debt amid UAHN turnaround efforts Tuesday, October 20, 2015 3:30 PM Banner Health, a Phoenix-based system with 28 hospitals, is issuing new bonds this week to refinance older debt, including the short-term loans it used to fund two recent acquisitions. Medicare Advantage star ratings may change to address fairness complaints Tuesday, October 20, 2015 2:00 PM Top CMS officials signaled this week that the agency will consider altering Medicare Advantage quality ratings to adjust for socio-economic characteristics of a plan's enrollees. TeamHealth rejects AmSurg's $7.8B merger proposal Tuesday, October 20, 2015 1:30 PM Nashville-based AmSurg Corp. announced Tuesday that it wants to merge with Team Health Holdings in a $7.8 billion stock-and-cash transaction that would create the largest physician ambulatory service in the country, but TeamHealth is not interested... Blog: Flu shots compliance took arm-twisting at Delaware system Tuesday, October 20, 2015 12:22 PM Most of Delaware's Christiana Care Health System employees are voluntarily vaccinated against the flu -- and the system is well on its way to beat the 77.3% vaccination mark set last year among the nation's healthcare workforce.

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