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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare BREAKING: CMS finalizes 2018 exchange rules ahead of Trump administration Friday, December 16, 2016 4:52 PM The CMS has made a handful of final changes to the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces for 2018, just a little more than a month before Donald Trump takes over the White House and congressional Republicans move to repeal the... Pfizer says US drops bold warning from anti-smoking pill Friday, December 16, 2016 3:51 PM The FDA has removed a bold-letter warning about risks of dangerous psychiatric side effects from Pfizer's anti-smoking drug Chantix. Shares of New York-based Pfizer Inc. fell 12 cents to $32.62 in afternoon trading. FDA bans most powdered medical gloves due to health risks Friday, December 16, 2016 2:05 PM The ban should have little impact on prices or availability of substitutes, since the market share for powdered gloves has been declining for at least the past 16 years. Could a provision in the Cures Act help stabilize the ACA exchanges? Friday, December 16, 2016 12:39 PM At the very end of the 996-page 21st Century Cures Act, buried behind sweeping legislation to speed up cures for cancer and fight the opioid crisis, is a little provision that could help balance out the imperiled health insurance exchanges. Connecture CFO James Purko to leave the company Friday, December 16, 2016 12:33 PM Connecture, a technology company that creates online health insurance exchanges, said Wednesday that its CFO James Purko is leaving the company at the end of the month to pursue other opportunities. The opportunity in CMS' dual-eligibility ACO model Friday, December 16, 2016 12:19 PM Serving patients eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid will allow ACOs to expand the services they offer, some say. Metro Health looks to grow as it finalizes deal with UM Health System Friday, December 16, 2016 12:17 PM Terms of the transaction were not immediately available, but sources told Crain's the deal would make 208-bed Metro Health a wholly owned subsidiary of UMHS. The Metro Health board would retain some local control. The latest jabs in Advocate, NorthShore fight to merge Friday, December 16, 2016 11:39 AM In their attempt to persuade a federal judge to support their union, Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University HealthSystem said in a new court filing that the court should look at the likely impact of their merger: lower prices for consumers...

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