| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Why hospital-owned health plans are big like cheese in Wisconsin | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 6:29 PM | |
| | Health systems have been eagerly launching or growing their own health plans as a way to cut out the middleman and take on more direct financial risk while caring for patients. In Wisconsin, providers have practiced that strategy for decades. |
| Sutter Health maintains operating momentum as costs creep up | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 4:15 PM | |
| | Sutter Health, a 25-hospital system based in Sacramento, Calif., overcame rising costs in the third quarter as it saw additional revenue from higher volume, fewer self-pay patients and the return of the state's provider fee program. |
| Congressional budget deal may hamstring ACA funding | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 3:00 PM | |
| | Some Affordable Care Act taxes and a program to help insurers adjust to the new insurance market may be delayed or hamstrung in the budget deal that Congress is scrambling to reach ahead of a Friday midnight deadline. |
| Payers, states at odds on CMS plan to fix dual-eligible underpayment | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 2:00 PM | |
| | Health plans and state Medicaid directors disagree on how the CMS should fix its problem of underpaying plans with high numbers of dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. In October, the agency said it would modify its risk-adjustment... |
| Blog: OB-GYNs and surgeons most likely to be sued, survey finds | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 1:40 PM | |
| | A survey of more than 4,000 U.S. primary-care physicians found that 59% had been named in at least one malpractice lawsuit in their career. Obstetricians, gynecologists and surgeons were the specialists most likely to be sued, according to Medscape... |
| Carson reshapes Medicare in healthcare plan | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 1:00 PM | |
| | Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson wants to raise the Medicare eligibility age to 70 as part of a healthcare plan released Wednesday that would reshape the popular program for the nation's elderly in addition to overhauling Medicaid and... |
| WellCare eliminates chief medical officer position | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 11:13 AM | |
| | Dr. Steve Goldberg is no longer the chief medical officer of WellCare Health Plans, the managed-care insurer said this week. His position was terminated, but he will stay on with the company until April 1. |
| Interest in A/V add-ons drives up price of surgical lights | | Wednesday, December 09, 2015 11:03 AM | |
| | Providers are paying more for surgical lights as interest grows in units with video monitor and camera attachments, according to the latest Modern Healthcare/ECRI Institute Technology Price Index. |
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