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More Male Nurses, But Wage Disparity Persists
For Medicare providers, looming cuts less painful than budget deal
The repeal Obamacare chorus quiets
Lifespan, United team up to coordinate healthcare
AHRQ: ED costs hard to predict with $4 to $24,000 swings
Second insulin-pen lawsuit announced in NY
Why do we want prices in healthcare?
February 27, 2013
NJ Governor backs Medicaid expansion
Can the Cleveland Clinic save American healthcare?
Coordinated healthcare could save CA $110B
Highmark: We need contract with UPMC
Tenet Healthcare misses on fourth-quarter earnings
Opinion: The unfulfilled promises of HIT
Flood-damaged hospital won't get another $20M
February 26, 2013
Nonprofit Hospitals Urged to Diversify Endowments
3 Hill panels examining changes to Medicare
The rest of the story on MA cost control
UPMC, Altoona Regional to negotiate affiliation deal
Female surgeons say explicit bias is rare, but subtler obstacles persist
Both sides mulling next move in hospital acquisition challenge
CA hospital CEO's pay stands out
February 25, 2013
Business Roundup: Summa Health Finds a Partner
Healthcare Imaging Strategies Not Exactly a Snap
Healthcare braces for sequester
Simpson-Bowles healthcare plan offers $600B in cuts, few specifics
Panel on healthcare work force, lacking a budget, is left waiting
In FL, a healthcare quandary
Rochester MN ponders $6B Mayo expansion
Health insurance premium increases drop since 2009
Opinion: Overcoming obstacles to better healthcare
February 22, 2013
6 States to Receive $250M in Innovation Model Funding
Early Elective Delivery Still a Costly Health Risk
Obamacare is winning
Bitter pill: Why medical bills are killing us
Getting patients to think about costs
Summa, Catholic Health Partners to partner
Govs to hear OR healthcare plan
MA receives $44M to further healthcare overhaul
February 21, 2013
Unlikely prescription from doctors: Less is more
Weight Loss Surgery Doesn't Cut Health Costs
Hospital Mergers Unlikely to be Affected by Antitrust Ruling
Governor: FL will expand Medicaid
FL Medicaid expansion could create 71,300 jobs
US issues final word on essential benefits
A digital shift on health data swells profits in an industry
February 20, 2013
Robotic Surgery Hikes Hysterectomy Costs
Can VBP Put Healthcare on Right Track?
Insurer stocks slip over possible Medicare cuts
Doctors-in-training face licensing delays in IL
Administration revives wage, overtime fight for home-care workers
February 19, 2013
BCBSNC Kicks Off Orthopedic Bundles
Business Roundup: HMA Finalizes Deal with Bayfront Health
States worry about rate shock during shift to new health law
Feds will run most Obamacare exchanges
Kaiser seen as a model for health care overhaul
Hundreds sue KY hospital over heart procedures
Geography to play larger role in health premiums
Express Scripts 4Q profit jumps 74 percent
NJ hospitals pioneer cost-cutting model
February 15, 2013
Q&A with WellPoint's Next CEO, Joe Swedish
GOP senators reintroduce bill to repeal IPAB
States face Friday deadline on healthcare exchanges
US official touts health insurance markets, lawmakers leery
MedPAC chief warns of Medicare payment crisis
EMRs probed for over-billing
February 14, 2013
Scripps Seeks to Acquire Assets of Troubled Hospice
Hospital Consolidation Gets a New Playbook
After 7 years, will Medicare finally have a leader?
House Republican aims to repeal Medicare doc pay cuts
CA health chief looks within for solution to rising health costs
CA reveals details of health law insurance plans
February 13, 2013
Moody's: Nonprofit Healthcare Debt Sees Record Downgrade
Weak Link Found Between Readmissions, Mortality
In SOTU address, Obama offers no new overtures on healthcare
WellPoint names Swedish from Trinity Health as new CEO
Dispute develops over discount drug program
MD's St. Joseph Medical Center not CMS-certified
Graph: The slowdown in US healthcare spending
February 12, 2013
DOJ, HHS Announce $4.2B in Medicare Fraud Recoveries
Observation units may ease burdens of ER care, but at a price
Price for a new hip? Many hospitals are stumped
Rule on 'essential benefits' sent to White House for final review
Charity care strains rural hospitals
Prime Healthcare to buy Newark's Saint Michael's Medical Center
Split ruling goes against Duke in tainted instruments case
US recovers $4.2B from healthcare fraud probes
February 11, 2013
No one fix to slow hospital readmission epidemic
Lower premiums at stake in NC Blue Cross lawsuit
Deadbeat docs owe government millions
February 8, 2013
Hospital Chiefs: Cut Costs with Care
Catholic Health to pay $4.9M in St. Joseph overbilling case
Obama renominates Tavenner to lead CMS
UT hospitals swallow "sick tax"
Boston hospital settles gender bias suit
HHS: Medicare prescription drug savings hit $5.7B
MD's healthcare experiment: An insurance co-op
Fate of Brooklyn hospital in SUNY board's hands
Mayo's Destination Medical Center bills introduced
February 7, 2013
Medical Errors Draw Fines for 7 CA Hospitals
CBO Analysis Renews Calls for SGR Repeal
Bipartisan 'doc fix' bill introduced
How OH's Republican governor sold the state on expanding Medicaid
Health insurance companies get in shape for 2014
Prime hospital chain acknowledges it faces 2 federal probes
Florida Blue plans accountable care program with Cleveland Clinic Florida
Compensation jumps for top NC hospital execs
Methodist files anti-trust lawsuit against OSF Healthcare
February 6, 2013
Hospitalizations Up For the Terminally Ill
'Sunshine Act' Gets Guarded Reaction
Obama's health-insurance expansion eroding, CBO projects
Insurers press docs to file more claims electronically
Opinion: Dig into details before scoffing at Mayo Clinic's $6B plan
Judge raises more questions about WakeMed Medicare settlement
HIE debate gets fiery
Maine AG wants hospitals to allow public into meetings
February 5, 2013
US proposes scrapping some obsolete Medicare regulations
Feds to publicize drug and device company payments to docs next year
Hang On for Risk-Bearing Contracts, Rewards
Healthcare spending in America, in 2 graphs
No agreement on how to fund medical watchdog unit
Opinion: Medicare's observation status unfair to patients
February 4, 2013
M&A Roundup: Prime, Tenet, BIDMC Announce Deals
Steward Health Lost $14.6M in 2011
CMS Unveils 4 Bundled Payment Models
Steward Health Care a force for change
ME politicians strive to stay in hospitals' good graces
Health insurers highlight excessive out-of-network charges
FL hospitals hit by cliff deal, health reform
WakeMed's Medicare settlement with feds would allow confidential reports
NY St. Luke's Hospital quietly shut down pediatric unit
February 1, 2013
Tick, tock: Administration misses some health law deadlines
Aetna profit slips as insurer settles reimbursement lawsuit
Mayo offers $6B vision to remake Rochester
Physicians' Persistent 'Overuse' of Care Continues
NC Senate committee moves to block participation in federal healthcare reform
CO lawmakers embrace healthcare change
As PPACA Deadlines Near, States Dawdle
Small surgeries, huge markups