| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | CMS offers no-risk risk contracts in primary-care initiative | | Friday, May 27, 2016 5:15 PM | |
| | Insurers wonder if CMS' latest effort to drum up interest in the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Initiative will overcome obstacles to participation in states that have laws prohibiting physician practices from taking on risk-based contracts. |
| Ousted Harris CEO joins Parkland Health | | Friday, May 27, 2016 1:15 PM | |
| | David Lopez, the former CEO of Harris Health System in Houston, has joined Dallas' Parkland Health & Hospital System as COO. Lopez joins the public health system after pursuing its CEO position in 2014. |
| Mayo Clinic gets $142 million NIH grant for precision medicine | | Friday, May 27, 2016 1:04 PM | |
| | The Rochester, Minn.-based system will establish the biobank for President Barack Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, which aims to collect at least 1 million volunteers' biological samples to promote individually tailored disease... |
| Epic Systems loses appeal in overtime pay dispute | | Friday, May 27, 2016 1:01 PM | |
| | A federal appeals court in Chicago ruled that electronic health record vendor Epic Systems violated its employees' rights by trying to require them to seek arbitration in state and federal wage-and-hour law claims and other disputes. |
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