| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Obama initiative on gun control shows limits of acting alone | | | President Barack Obama's do-it-himself plan for keeping guns away from those who shouldn't have them falls far short of what he'd hoped to accomplish through legislation after a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School shook the country to attention... |
| House to consider bill winnowing class-action suits | | Monday, January 04, 2016 4:00 PM | |
| | Legislation the House is expected to take up this week would make it virtually impossible to get judges to certify class-action lawsuits, according to the bill's critics. Its supporters, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, say it would merely... |
| California gets $6.2 billion Medicaid transformation waiver | | Monday, January 04, 2016 3:55 PM | |
| | The CMS has formally signed off on California's $6.2 billion Medicaid waiver, along with its decision to renew extra funding that supports the state's public safety net hospitals for just one year instead of five. |
| Mega-deals pose credit risks for Aetna, Anthem | | Monday, January 04, 2016 2:08 PM | |
| | Health insurers Aetna and Anthem will face credit rating downgrades if state and federal regulators OK their separate acquisitions, according to ratings agency Standard & Poor's. |
| Increased demand for specialized OR tables drives up average price | | Monday, January 04, 2016 11:01 AM | |
| | The average cost of operating room tables increased this year as more providers purchased orthopedic specialty and hybrid OR tables, which can cost two to four times more than general surgical tables, according to the latest Modern Healthcare/ECRI... |
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