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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, July 20, 2012
Annual readmissions and mortality rate data has been refreshed on the Hospital Compare website, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has also updated performance data for hospital-acquired conditions and outpatient imaging safety measures.
By: Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media, July 20, 2012
The rule for identifying potential benchmark plans to support the definition of essential health benefits has been quietly released by the Department of Health and Human Services. The rule also establishes the two-phase approach to be used in the quality health plan accreditation process.
By: Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, July 19, 2012
Although not widely practiced, palliative care is becoming part of the discussion among healthcare leaders to improve care and trim costs. Yet too many physicians still do not endorse it—perhaps because they don't fully understand it.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, July 19, 2012
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was written in part to strengthen this country’s healthcare safety net, may end up punishing the very providers who take care of the poor.
By: July 12, 2012
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By: February 14, 2012
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