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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare Former Tenet vice president faces prison time for role in $400 million scheme Wednesday, February 01, 2017 8:41 PM A former Tenet Healthcare executive is the first executive of the hospital chain to be charged for a role in allegedly defrauding Medicaid through a $400 million kickback scheme. Medicare Advantage plans see 0.25% rate hike for 2018 Wednesday, February 01, 2017 5:43 PM The CMS is proposing a modest increase in baseline Medicare Advantage payment rates for 2018 of 0.25% on average, down from 0.85% last year. Standards committee pushes for device IDs on insurance claims Wednesday, February 01, 2017 4:20 PM An insurer standards committee is moving the process forward for including unique device identifiers on insurance claims forms. Kindred replacing physical nursing homes with 'virtual portfolio' Wednesday, February 01, 2017 3:25 PM Kindred is selling its 91 skilled-nursing homes and will implement a new strategy that relies upon preferred partnerships with other nursing home operators to ensure a smooth patient handoff.. ICER proposes updates to value assessment framework Wednesday, February 01, 2017 2:10 PM The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, the Boston-based not-for-profit whose reports assess the value of drugs for patients, published proposed updates Wednesday to the framework it uses in these evaluations. Trump's Supreme Court nominee opposes assisted suicide, ACA contraception-coverage mandate Wednesday, February 01, 2017 12:57 PM Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, has ruled against the Affordable Care Act contraception-coverage mandate and vehemently opposes assisted suicide. Republican senators say fixing individual market should be first step in ACA repeal Wednesday, February 01, 2017 12:29 PM Republican lawmakers say that as they consider ways to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, they want to first take measures to stabilize the individual marketplace before focusing on efforts to reform Medicaid and roll back expansion.

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