| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare
| House delays vote targeting Planned Parenthood, health law | | | Republican leaders have decided to delay until January a House vote to unravel President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul and block federal money for Planned Parenthood, hoping to increase attention on their drive against two of conservatives'... |
| Blog: RWJF releases massive health exchange data set | | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 5:15 PM | |
| | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released the only nationally comprehensive public data set that includes information on all plans offered in the health insurance marketplaces in 2015 and 2016. |
| Why the Fed's rate hike could spur healthcare borrowing | | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 3:45 PM | |
| | The Federal Reserve announced a widely anticipated increase to the benchmark interest rate, the first in nearly a decade. The expectation that the hike is only the beginning could bring ambivalent healthcare borrowers to the market. |
| Providers press for delay, flexibility in EHR rule | | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 2:00 PM | |
| | Several groups, including the American College of Cardiology, asked CMS rulemakers to scrap the EHR incentive program's full-year reporting periods for meaningful-use metrics, replacing them with 90-day periods. They also asked the agency to end the... |
| Capella names chief quality officer | | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 12:00 PM | |
| | Dana Rice has been appointed senior vice president and chief quality officer for privately held Capella Healthcare. |
| HHS wants more states to data-mine for Medicaid fraud | | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 11:34 AM | |
| | HHS says few states have taken it up on an offer to receive federal funding for data-mining, which would allow their Medicaid fraud units to search claims. States say they don't need it, even though the improper payment rate has nearly doubled as... |
| Has the Cadillac tax hit a dead end? | | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 11:28 AM | |
| | The tax will be delayed for two years in a budget agreement expected to be passed this week. Experts say the biggest impact would come if the tax is never implemented. |
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