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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare Accretive Health changes performance, then name to R1 Thursday, January 05, 2017 7:25 PM Accretive Health, a revenue-cycle vendor that a year ago received a financial rescue package from Ascension, has changed its name to R1 RCM. It's not also solidly in the black. ACA repeal would drop healthcare spending by nearly $146 billion Thursday, January 05, 2017 4:48 PM A study by the Urban Institute also found that repeal would result in an additional $88 billion of uncompensated care sought by hospitals in 2019. Democrats seek probe of HHS nominee Price's healthcare stock trades Thursday, January 05, 2017 2:59 PM President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for HHS secretary, Tom Price, was found to have been trading stocks in healthcare companies while he debated healthcare legislation as a member of the House. Families USA names Frederick Isasi executive director Thursday, January 05, 2017 1:01 PM Families USA has selected Frederick Isasi, a director at the bipartisan National Governors Association, to serve as its new executive director. Isasi succeeds Ron Pollack, who is leaving the consumer advocacy group he co-founded 36 years ago. Trump vets Former Henry Ford CEO Nancy Schlichting for VA post Thursday, January 05, 2017 12:58 PM Nancy Schlichting, the newly retired CEO of the Henry Ford Health System who chaired a commission last year on revamping the Veteran Affairs health system, met with the Trump transition team. Ascension Ventures invests in online reputation management Thursday, January 05, 2017 11:18 AM Ascension Ventures, the investment arm of hospital giant Ascension, was part of a group that recently invested $20 million in Reputation.com, one the largest and most influential providers of online reputation management services. Castlight acquires digital health benefits company Jiff Thursday, January 05, 2017 11:16 AM San Francisco-based Castlight Health has acquired Jiff, a digital health benefits platform, for about 27 million shares. GOP governors face uphill battle to spare Medicaid expansion from repeal Thursday, January 05, 2017 11:13 AM An effort by Republican governors of Medicaid expansion states to convince congressional Republicans that the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is worth keeping is unlikely to influence their drive to repeal the ACA and that coverage... Can Democrats seize the political advantage in worries over ACA repeal? Thursday, January 05, 2017 11:12 AM As Republicans face harsh truths about what would happen after their promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Democrats may point to job and revenue losses as they appeal to voters and their pocketbooks. Post-ACA landscape raises stakes for insurer megamergers Thursday, January 05, 2017 11:10 AM The near-certain possibility that the Affordable Care Act will be bulldozed and replaced by the incoming administration raises the stakes in the Justice Department's antitrust cases against the Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna mergers.

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