American Health Planning Association

Hospital-dependent patients drive up readmissions, costs (NYTimes Well Blog)
Why walk-in healthcare is a fast growing profit center for retail chains (Washington Post)
Connecticut Considers New For-Profit Hospital Regulations (The Hartford Courant)
New Report Addresses the Funding for Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH) (The Commonwealth Fund)
Surgical Mortality Rates in Hospitals Reflect the Socioeconomic Status of the Communities They Serve (Reuters)
iVantage Health Analytics Names America’s Best Healthcare Cities (iVantage Health Analytics)
Economy Stokes Tensions Between Hospitals, Labor (Pittsburgh Post - Gazette)
Cleveland Clinic's bundled payment plan draws out-of-state patients (Bloomberg)
About Hospital Community Benefit Programs and the Community (Fierce Healthcare)
Inpatient Stays Drive Price Variation (Beckers Hospital Review)

Inpatient Hospital Prices Drive Spending for Episodes of Care for Privately Insured Patients (NIHCR Research Brief No. 14)

Many Florida hospitals charge enormous "trauma" fees (Tampa Bay News)
Hospital Inpatient Volume Continues to Decline (Healthcare Finance News)
A Push for Less Testing in Emergency Rooms (Wall Street Journal)
Medicare Cut a Threat for Critical Care Access Hospitals (Wichita Eagle)
Patients caught in price war between MeadowlandsHospital and UnitedHealthCare (NorthJersey.com)
Where Have All the Inpatients Gone? A Regional Study with National Implicaitons (Health Affairs)
States Look to cut sosts for treating dual-eligibles (PEW Stateline)
Reduction in Hospital Psychiatric Beds a National Trend? (The Florida Times-Union)
Anthem says narrow network allows significant consumer savings; More providers would mean higher premiums (Rochester Times)
Dialysis in NYC Hospitals Presents a Challenge for CON (NY Times)
Hospital bankruptcies a result of trends, not a single event (Healthcare Finance News)
Higher Service Volume Shown to Improve Outcomes for Severe Sepsis in Academic Medical Centers (Science Daily)
Report on Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Model Leads to Reduced Cost of Care, Improved Population Health (Milbank Memorial Fund)
Patients' Cost Rise while Specialists' Income Soars (NY Times)
Maryland's Bold Hospital Spending Plan Gets Federal Blessing (Kaiser Health News)
Presumptive Eligibility for Medicaid Enrollment Varies Across Country (Health Affairs)
Nonprofit Health Centers Go Into For-Profit Insurance Business (Kaiser Health News)
Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Hospitals Being Questioned by More Localities (The New York Times)
2013 County Health Rankings (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
South Seattle Program Is a Model for Integration of Mental and Physical Health (Seattle Times)
NY Medicaid ditching fee for service (Healthcare Payer News)
Continued Hospital Closures Threaten Healthcare in One-Hospital Towns (US News & World Report)
Subsidies for Safety-Net Hospitals Reduced by the ACA (NY Times)
The NYS Hospital Association Grades the Graders (The Washington Post/Kaiser Health News)
The ACA is Encouraging Some Non-Profit Hospitals to Merge with For-Profits (Bloomberg)
Mississippi Patients and Hospitals Threatened by Rejection of Medicaid Expansion Driven by Political Polarization (Reuters)
Capacity Management thru Regional Health Planning/CON Cited for Giving Rochester the Nation’s Lowest Medicare Costs (Wall Street Journal)
Rural Critical Access Hospitals Threatened by Medicare Cost Containment Policy (Kansas Health Institute)
Disproportionate Impact Seen on Rural Hospitals from Regulatory Changes (Fierce Healthcare)
Georgia CON Decision Raises Questions About State Action Immunity (HealthLeaders Media)
Doctors Who Profit From Radiation Prescribe It More Often, Study Finds (NYTimes.com)
Report Documents Improvement of NY Hospitals Over a Decade: Continuous Quality Improvement Through Public Reporting? (Wall Street Journal)
The Story of How Atlanta’s Safety-Net Hospital, Grady Memorial, Was Saved (Health Affairs)
New Laws and Rising Costs Create a Surge of Supersizing
Hospitals (NY Times)
Physician-owned Hospitals Expand in Texas (The Dallas Morning News)
Nurse/patient staffing ratios to be on November ballot again in Massachusetts (The Boston Globe)
Hospitals Lobby Against Revealing Their Mistakes (Forbes)
A Mixed Funding Future Faces Community Health Centers (Reuters)
Freestanding EDs Represent New Competition for Both Hospitals and Urgent Care Centers (USA Today)
Competition, Not Need, Drives Hospital Cardiac Care Investment (The Washington Post)
Hospitals’ Market Dominance Drives Up Costs (NY Times)
New York Is Still a Model for Using Health Planning to Regionalize Specialized Hospital Services (The Washington Post)
Maryland Proposes to Regulate Total Hospital Costs (Washington Post)
States’ Decisions on Medicaid Widen Healthcare Disparities (LA Times)
Controversy Continues Over CON’s Regulation of ASCs in North Carolina (The Charlotte Observer)
Hospitals’ “Community Benefits” Spending Does Little for Community (MedPage Today)
Community Benefits Represent 11.6% of Nonprofit Hospital Spending (Fierce Healthcare)

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