| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | BREAKING: Bremberg to lead Trump's healthcare transition | | | Sources say President-elect Donald Trump's HHS transition will be led by Andrew Bremberg, who served in the George W. Bush administration and more recently has been an adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. |
| Will value-based payment initiatives continue under Trump? | | | President-elect Donald Trump's promise to dismantle the Affordable Care Act is unlikely to also undo widespread efforts to nudge the U.S. healthcare system toward value-based payment, including experiments devised by the ACA-funded CMS Innovation... |
| Docs' threats to leave Medicare could cause GOP to slow MACRA rollout | | Thursday, November 10, 2016 1:19 PM | |
| | Physicians have pledged to retire or leave Medicare as a result of burdens placed on them by the recently finalized payment rule. That could spur Republicans, now fully in charge of the government, to slow federal value-based payment efforts. |
| Hackensack Meridian, JFK Health announce merger plans | | Thursday, November 10, 2016 12:30 PM | |
| | New Jersey's Hackensack Meridian Health and JFK Health said Thursday that they have taken the first steps towards merging their organizations, touting their joint focus on population health. |
| Quorum Health makes priority of 8-hospital divestiture | | Thursday, November 10, 2016 12:09 PM | |
| | Management of Quorum Health Corp. is negotiating to sell five more of its money-losing hospitals to go along with two already under contract. Though divestitures are a priority, Quorum has expressed an interest in acquiring a hospital in Huntsville,... |
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