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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare Budget deal includes proposed cuts to Medicare payments 8:45:00 AM A two-year $80 billion federal budget deal that could be announced as early as Tuesday would continue sequester spending cuts and limit future payment rates for hospitals that set up or buy off-campus facilities. Novartis income drops 42% in Q3 after sale a year earlier 8:45:00 AM Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis says net income fell 42% in the third quarter, largely due to the sale of its hepatitis drug unit a year earlier and provisions for legal settlements and fees. 1,800 hospitals will see value-based purchasing bonuses in fiscal 2016 Monday, October 26, 2015 5:24 PM Medicare will reward more hospitals than it will penalize in fiscal 2016 under the value-based purchasing program launched under the Affordable Care Act, the CMS said Monday. Search the CMS data to see how hospitals performed. Sissel case asks Supreme Court to take on ACA's origins Monday, October 26, 2015 4:00 PM Challengers of the Affordable Care Act asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to hear another case about the law, this time arguing the healthcare law is unconstitutional because it is a revenue-raising bill that began in the Senate instead of the... Senators want FTC to investigate saline shortage Monday, October 26, 2015 3:48 PM A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wants the Federal Trade Commission to investigate possible antitrust violations by manufacturers of saline solution, which in recent years, has been in short supply in U.S. hospitals. Window shopping on HealthCare.gov: High-deductible plans abound Monday, October 26, 2015 2:15 PM Consumers browsing HealthCare.gov for health insurance ahead of next week's open-enrollment period will immediately notice a couple items: a quicker window-shopping experience and many more high-deductible health plan options. More CMS oversight slows Medicaid managed-care rate-setting Monday, October 26, 2015 1:43 PM Health insurers say increased oversight from the CMS' Office of the Actuary has made the rate-setting process for Medicaid managed-care plans unpredictable. Michigan docs face more scrutiny on drug prescriptions Monday, October 26, 2015 1:33 PM Doctors and pharmacists in the state agree that a more robust and user-friendly monitoring program would help combat the rising drug overdose problem. ASCO says site neutrality won't cure cancer-care payment issues Monday, October 26, 2015 12:00 PM The American Society of Clinical Oncology says the CMS should look at episode-based or bundled payment instead of site-neutral payment, as federally proposed. Blog: Specter of congressional action pushed EHR vendors to agree on interoperability measures Monday, October 26, 2015 11:27 AM With the government breathing down developers' necks to achieve more interoperability for electronic health records, a dozen competing executives stopped hissing and clawing at each other long enough to agree on a way to survey and measure IT's...

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