| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Blog: Quality of ovarian cancer care varies considerably | | Wednesday, March 02, 2016 2:07 PM | |
| | There is "considerable variability," and one of the most significant factors affecting quality of care is whether a patient is treated by a gynecologic oncologist at a high-volume facility, according to the report from the National... |
| Texas community says it needs for physician-owned hospital to expand | | Wednesday, March 02, 2016 1:00 PM | |
| | A Texas community is rallying HHS to allow a local hospital to increase the number of its beds. Residents say Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital needs to grow to properly catch up with an uptick in local population and to prepare for natural... |
| White House backs bill to track blacklisted providers | | Wednesday, March 02, 2016 11:16 AM | |
| | The Obama administration supports a bipartisan bill that boosts states' ability to identify providers that have been banned from participating in Medicare or in another state's Medicaid program or the Children's Health Insurance Program. |
| Universal American sheds more ACOs but takes on more risk | | Wednesday, March 02, 2016 11:07 AM | |
| | Universal American, the Medicare managed-care company that quickly moved into Medicare accountable care, continues to scale back its participation in ACOs, but has grown more aggressive with remaining accountable care efforts. |
| Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Texas abortion law | | Wednesday, March 02, 2016 11:03 AM | |
| | Justice Anthony Kennedy appeared to signal Wednesday that Texas is unlikely to score a clear victory in a case challenging its restrictions on abortion clinics as creating an undue burden on access to the procedure. But the clinics that brought the... |
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