| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | CMS proposes $50 million payment bump for dialysis services | | Friday, June 24, 2016 6:15 PM | |
| | The CMS is proposing to increase Medicare payments for dialysis services. Under the proposed rulemaking, dialysis facilities would receive 0.5% or $50 million more in 2017 than they received in reimbursement this year. |
| Duke LifePoint to acquire East Texas health system | | Friday, June 24, 2016 12:51 PM | |
| | Duke LifePoint Healthcare, a joint venture of LifePoint Health and Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System, has signed a letter of intent to acquire Good Shepherd Health System, a two-hospital system in Longview, Texas. |
| Calif. hospital pays $1 million to settle patient-dumping case | | Friday, June 24, 2016 12:49 PM | |
| | Pacifica Hospital of the Valley in Sun Valley, Calif., has agreed to pay $1 million and adopt homeless patient discharge protocols to settle allegations by the city of Los Angeles that the hospital improperly discharged a homeless patient. |
| Wyden questions motives of doctors on opioid abuse panel | | Friday, June 24, 2016 12:30 PM | |
| | A high-ranking Senate Democrat is pushing for more answers on why doctors and patient advocates with financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry came to serve on a panel that advises the federal government on pain issues. |
| New York-Presbyterian offers rare 'century' bond | | Friday, June 24, 2016 11:54 AM | |
| | The hospital plans to use the funds to refinance old debt as well as help integrate regional hospitals into its network. Some of the money will also go toward a new ambulatory-care center at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn. |
| Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak names new president | | Friday, June 24, 2016 11:51 AM | |
| | Rosanna Morris has been named president of 1,070-bed Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., replacing Shane Cerone, who left earlier this year to become a consultant with Van Conway and Partners. |
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