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Eight academic centers join effort to address home care shortage
9:00:00 AM
The academic centers will give newly trained providers the unique skills needed to offer home-based primary care. Only about 1,000 providers currently offer home visits even though about 2 million Medicare patients need the service.


Senate GOP sees no path on healthcare, despite Trump prods
8:54:39 AM
Top Senate Republicans think it's time to leave their derailed drive to scrap the Obama healthcare law behind them. And they're tired of the White House prodding them to keep voting until they succeed.


Trump panel calls opioid crisis a 'national emergency'
Monday, July 31, 2017 8:00 PM
The White House's drug commission called for mandatory presciber education initiatives to combat overprescription of opioids and state waivers so Medicaid can cover more substance abuse treatment programs.


CMS gives skilled-nursing, rehab facilities a $370 million raise
Monday, July 31, 2017 6:00 PM
Skilled-nursing facilities and inpatient rehabilitation facilities will get pay increases next year, but nowhere near the ones they got for 2017.


Poor earnings, rather than ACA repeal efforts, now pressure hospital stocks
Monday, July 31, 2017 6:00 PM
Hospital stocks have received a one-two punch thanks to the Senate's attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and a poor start to the second-quarter earnings season.


Bipartisan coalition looks to solve problem of individual market
Monday, July 31, 2017 5:31 PM
In the wake of the Congress' failure to pass a bill repealing and replacing Obamacare, the so-called Problem Solvers Caucus is advancing a set of principles aimed at bringing stability to a shaky insurance market.


Anthem breach puts data of more than 18,000 members at risk
Monday, July 31, 2017 5:00 PM
The announcement of the breach comes just over a month after Anthem reached the largest ever settlement in a data-breach case.


CMS seeks to automate hospice selection process
Monday, July 31, 2017 3:00 PM
The CMS will change an enrollment policy that prevented hospices from being reimbursed for nearly 90,000 days of end-of-life care for Medicare beneficiaries. That amounted to more than $14 million in lost revenue.


LabCorp to buy Chiltern in $1.2 billion deal
Monday, July 31, 2017 1:00 PM
There has been a recent wave of consolidation among contract research organizations as companies look to grow their pharmaceutical services and cut costs.


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