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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare CHS fires CEO of dissident Fort Wayne hospitals 8:00:00 AM Brian Bauer, the CEO of Community Health System's Fort Wayne hospitals, has been fired in the wake of a failed physician effort to find a buyer for the eight hospitals. AMA delays decision on removing waivers for buprenorphine Monday, June 12, 2017 11:00 PM The American Medical Association delayed a measure on Monday that would have allowed physicians to prescribe the drug buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid abuse without obtaining a waiver. Nearly 2 million dropped Obamacare coverage through mid-March Monday, June 12, 2017 9:38 PM The CMS' exit survey data shows the bulk of dropouts obtained employer-sponsored coverage. A second agency report showed consumers dropped off the insurance rolls had higher premiums than most due to less financial assistance from the federal... High court ruling speeds up generic biotech drug approval Monday, June 12, 2017 6:36 PM A unanimous Supreme Court is speeding up the time for generic biotech drugs to become available to the public in a ruling that means a loss of billions in sales to the makers of original versions. Not-for-profit health insurers warn Medicaid cuts would endanger essential care-management programs Monday, June 12, 2017 5:00 PM Vulnerable Medicaid members would go without necessary care and some would even lose coverage, driving up the cost of uncompensated care at hospitals throughout the states, the insurers said. Indiana skipped legal steps in requesting Medicaid waiver Monday, June 12, 2017 5:00 PM Indiana failed to obtain required public input on a proposal to make Medicaid enrollees work or be seeking work before submitting it to the CMS. Attorneys say that leaves the work requirement open to a legal challenge. Drug distributors, PBMs seek to block Cherokee Nation opioid suit Monday, June 12, 2017 4:00 PM Several major pharmacy benefit managers and drug distributors have sued the Cherokee Nation over its attempt to make them pay for the widespread distribution of opioids that has allegedly contributed to the opioid addiction that has beset its tribal... St. Francis cleared in rival's $300 million antitrust suit Monday, June 12, 2017 3:00 PM A federal appeals court ruled that St. Francis Medical Center's exclusive contracts with commercial insurers did not violate antitrust laws by keeping other Peoria, Ill., hospitals out of their provider networks. Trump nominates UNC cancer center director to lead National Cancer Institute Monday, June 12, 2017 2:04 PM Dr. Norman E. Sharpless, director of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been nominated to lead the National Cancer Institute, the largest division of the National Institutes of Health. CMS may have mistakenly made $729 million in EHR payments Monday, June 12, 2017 1:00 PM The CMS may have paid providers more than $729 million in incentive payments for EHR systems that didn't comply with federal standards, according to HHS' Office of Inspector General.

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