| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Two reservation hospitals now face funding cutoff deadline | | | A second troubled government-run hospital on a Native American reservation in South Dakota was given an extension Friday to reach an agreement with federal officials to make significant quality-of-care improvements to avoid losing its Medicare and... |
| Cerner, Ascension execs call for EHR standardization | | Friday, April 08, 2016 5:01 PM | |
| | Cerner President Zane Burke said Friday that connectivity between clinicians remains an issue despite about $30 billion spent by the federal government over the past five years to improve electronic health records technology at hospitals and... |
| AHA-backed antitrust bill could ease hospital mergers | | Friday, April 08, 2016 5:00 PM | |
| | Healthcare industry leaders are closely watching a House-passed bill that could make it easier for hospitals to merge without getting tangled in lengthy antitrust challenges. But some experts say the AHA-backed bill wouldn't make much difference in... |
| Advocate's margins, capitated revenue drop in 2015 | | Friday, April 08, 2016 4:30 PM | |
| | The Federal Trade Commission isn't Advocate Health Care's only major challenge right now. The Downers Grove, Ill.-based health system took a step back last year with its capitated, value-based insurance contracts. |
| Arkansas Medicaid plan approved as funding showdown looms | | Friday, April 08, 2016 3:30 PM | |
| | Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed into law Friday his plan to keep the state's first-in-the-nation hybrid Medicaid expansion and urged fellow Republicans to avoid a Washington-style shutdown fight over their efforts to defund the program. |
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