| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Lawmakers blame each other for imploding insurance co-ops | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 5:13 PM | |
| | At the first of two congressional hearings on the subject this week, Republicans blamed the the structure Affordable Care Act's program intended to foster consumer-focused insurance plans for a cascade of failing co-op plans. Democrats say the GOP... |
| Tenet to sell two North Carolina hospitals to Duke LifePoint | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:00 PM | |
| | Tenet Healthcare Corp. announced an agreement to shed its North Carolina hospitals, one of several deals that will generate $1 billion for the Dallas-based hospital company as it looks toward beefing up its ambulatory portfolio. |
| Charity care, write-off throws Tenet for a loss | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:00 PM | |
| | An uptick in uncompensated and charitable care plus a major write-off from shedding a Missouri teaching hospital threw Tenet Healthcare Corp. into the red in the third quarter. |
| Federal watchdogs want scrutiny of state efforts to boost Medicaid pay | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:00 PM | |
| | The Government Accountability Office and the federal advisory panel on Medicaid reiterated their calls Tuesday for states to better document and report the extra payments they make to providers that fall outside the federal disproportionate-share... |
| Providers say they'll campaign against cuts to colonoscopy payments | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:00 PM | |
| | Providers say they may stop taking patients who are often at high risk of being diagnosed with colon cancer because of cuts to colonoscopy Medicare payments. The CMS says it's following recommendations that found ??that providers were... |
| Kentucky elects Republican governor committed to ACA rollback | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 11:20 AM | |
| | Kentucky's status as a one of the few Southern states to embrace the coverage expansions of the Affordable Care Act was thrown into question Tuesday with the election of Republican Matt Bevin to succeed Democrat Steve Beshear. |
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