| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare
| Providers warn CMS that 'doc fix' reveals broken measures | | Monday, November 16, 2015 9:51 PM | |
| | Hospital and physician groups are cautioning the CMS that it needs better measures before it ties physician pay to quality and outcomes performance. The new merit-based incentive payment system is slated to go into effect in 2019. |
| Dignity Health gets hit with higher costs in first quarter of 2016 | | Monday, November 16, 2015 3:15 PM | |
| | Dignity Health grappled with rising costs in the first quarter of its fiscal 2016, which widened its operating loss year over year. Higher staffing levels, increased salary and benefit expenses, rising drug prices and costs to transition to the... |
| Medicare keeps test of joint-replacement bundles mandatory | | Monday, November 16, 2015 12:44 PM | |
| | The CMS will require hospitals in 67 areas, including Los Angeles and New York City, to participate in a test of bundled payments for hip and knee replacements. The final rule pushes back the start date three months to April 1, 2016. |
| Mayo Clinic costs continue upward trajectory | | Monday, November 16, 2015 12:24 PM | |
| | The Mayo Clinic had been trying to get its expenses under control by trimming its workforce, scaling back health benefits and introducing more cost-sharing for employees. But after experiencing a payoff from those efforts last year, it is once again... |
| Investment losses drag down Mercy Health's bottom line | | Monday, November 16, 2015 11:50 AM | |
| | Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy Health, a Catholic system with facilities across seven Sun Belt states, improved its operations in the most recent fiscal year, but steep investment losses wiped away the progress. |
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