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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare McKesson plans to pay $1.1 billion for CoverMyMeds Wednesday, January 25, 2017 5:45 PM McKesson Corp.'s third quarter profit was relatively flat as it announced Wednesday that it will acquire an electronic prior authorization company. Hospitals sprout cost-efficient urgent-care centers as demand grows Wednesday, January 25, 2017 3:20 PM Hospital systems are using acquisitions and joint ventures with urgent-care chains to build outpatient access points in their markets that are a lower-cost alternative to emergency rooms for minor ailments and injuries. MultiCare, Northwell and... Providers lobby Trump, Congress to follow path away from Medicare fee-for-service Wednesday, January 25, 2017 1:32 PM Providers and insurers are among healthcare leaders lobbying Congress and the Trump administration to continue to push Medicare into value-based payment models that require costly technology to track quality metrics. Those investments could be lost... House Dems introduce doomed single-payer legislation Wednesday, January 25, 2017 1:20 PM The idea of a Medicare-for-all health system gained traction during the Democratic presidential primary, but the legislation introduced this week has no chance of passing. AMA, AHA form coalition to reform prior authorization requirements Wednesday, January 25, 2017 1:09 PM The coalition, announced Wednesday, will lobby health plans to streamline prior authorization for medical tests, procedures, devices and drugs. They say the current process is time-consuming. VA health IT platform champion is gone, but project could survive Wednesday, January 25, 2017 12:17 PM Although its chief architect is gone, a potentially innovative project to overhaul the health information technology system at the Veterans Affairs Department will likely live on with the Trump administration.

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