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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare US charging 412 in health fraud schemes worth $1.3 billion 8:53:54 AM U.S. prosecutors announced Thursday that they have charged more than 400 people with taking part in health care fraud and opioid scams that totaled $1.3 billion in false billing. Antlers' secrets may offer aid in regenerating human nerves 1:01:00 AM Could deer antlers hold the answer to aiding paraplegics? Scientists studying the bony structures think they might hold secrets that could be used for nerve growth or even regenerating limbs. Q&A with Hinton: 'Payers are not enemies' 1:01:00 AM James Hinton, having just stepped down as president at Baylor Scott & White Health recently spoke with Modern Healthcare Editor Aurora Aguilar. Insurers with the largest share of individual market silent on whether they'd return to medical underwriting Thursday, July 13, 2017 11:35 PM Several prominent health insurer trade groups oppose bringing back pre-ACA style individual plans. But if the Cruz amendment became law, would insurers now on the exchanges choose to sell them? Most declined to speculate. CMS looks to drop payment for off-campus services by half Thursday, July 13, 2017 9:00 PM The CMS wants to further reduce the rate for services offered at off campus hospital facilities. CMS proposes slashing 340B rates, paying for joint procedures at outpatient facilties Thursday, July 13, 2017 6:00 PM The CMS wants to slash 340B drug payments to hospitals and might allow Medicare to pay for hip and knee replacement procedures that take place in outpatient facilities, according to a proposal released Thursday. Bupa breach affects more than half a million customers Thursday, July 13, 2017 4:20 PM Unlike recent ranswomare attacks, the breach came from within the company. Trustees' report says Medicare will be insolvent by 2029 Thursday, July 13, 2017 3:00 PM The estimate is a year longer than trustees reported in 2016. As a result, the Independent Payment Advisory Board will not have to swoop into action to curtail Medicare spending. However, the trustees are worried docs will exit the program anyway. Providers slow to adopt value-based pay Thursday, July 13, 2017 1:00 PM Growing costs, a lack of standardization in how quality is defined, a disengaged workforce, and a lack of trust and transparency between providers, payers and regulators have stalled movement away from volume to value, according to a new survey. New Senate bill retains Medicaid cuts, provides more money to stabilize individual market Thursday, July 13, 2017 12:00 PM A revised version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act retains significant cuts to Medicaid, despite the protest— and defection—of Republican centrists.

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