| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare
| Lawmaker blasts Shkreli over subpoena response | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 4:00 PM | |
| | A House lawmaker says former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli, reviled for hiking the price of a life-saving drug, has not made any legal arrangements to appear before Congress next week, despite receiving a subpoena. |
| Providers balk at proposed post-acute care measures | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:15 PM | |
| | The CMS is proposing new measures to better track frequency of care and spending in skilled-nursing facilities, home health agencies, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term-care hospitals in an effort to curb rising costs. |
| Low gas prices fuel hospital savings | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:00 PM | |
| | Consumers have rejoiced since gas prices dipped below $2 a gallon. Experts say hospitals are also happy about the low cost of oil, since it means significant savings on fuel for their vehicle fleets and petroleum products for their heating systems. |
| Senate committee ideas on improving IT sound familiar | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 1:15 PM | |
| | A Senate committee's ideas on boosting the interoperability of electronic health-record systems and increasing their usability harken back to a 2004 plan authored by the father of the modern health IT movement. |
| Drugmakers commit to fight against antibiotic resistance | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:43 PM | |
| | More than 80 pharmaceutical, diagnostic and biotech firms are calling for increased government investment of new antibiotic drugs to address the growing threat posed by drug-resistant infections coupled with dwindling innovation of new treatments. |
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