| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare
| Ruling gives hospitals hope on RAC appeals backlog | | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 4:00 PM | |
| | Hospitals persuaded a federal appeals court to give new life to their legal fight to force HHS to work more quickly through a backlog of disputed findings by Medicare's controversial recovery audit contractors. |
| Emeritus deal drags down Brookdale Senior Living results | | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 2:00 PM | |
| | Brookdale Senior Living, the nation's largest senior and assisted-living company, ended the final months of the year with flat revenue and a drop in occupancy as the company struggled to digest its $2.8 billion acquisition of Emeritus Corp. |
| Medicaid insurer Molina doubles profit in 2015 | | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 11:24 AM | |
| | UnitedHealth Group and other diversified payers have struggled with some aspects of the Affordable Care Act, but Medicaid-centric payers, such as Molina Healthcare, have proven to be clear-cut winners under healthcare reform. |
| Lincare ordered to pay $239,800 HIPAA privacy penalty | | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 11:14 AM | |
| | An administrative law judge ruled that respiratory- and infusion-care provider Lincare must pay $239,800 for failing to safeguard patient information. The case marks the second time in eight years HHS has extracted a privacy penalty through... |
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