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• Data Analytics in Widespread Use, But Not for Population Health (Health IT)

• Related: CMS Offers Resources to Address Social Determinants of Health (HealthIT)

• Why long-term care insurance could get a lot more expensive for thousands of Virginians (Virginia Pilot)

• North Dakota to Implement Reinsurance for Health Insurance Market (HealthPayer)

• Past the Price Index: Exploring Actual Prices Paid for Specific Services by Metro Area (HealthCostInstitute)

• Connecticut governor proposes partially privatizing mental health, addiction services (FierceHealth)

• Major health bills headed to Gov. DeSantis [Florida] related to CON for acute care services.(BizJournals)

• Researchers at University of Chicago Target Medical Research:The Impact of Marital Status On Health Care Utilization Among Medicare Beneficiaries (Insurancenews)

• Can Managed Care Plan Reduce Health Care Costs by Providing Social Supports? Maybe. (Forbes)

• CMS to Test New Models for Medicare, Medicaid Dual Eligibles (HealthPayer)

• Shifting Care from Office to Outpatient Settings: Services are Increasingly Performed in Outpatient Settings with Higher Prices (HCCI Blog Health Bytes)

• GAO: Private Health Insurance Enrollment Remains Concentrated Among Few Issuers, including in Exchanges (Direct link to GAO Report)

• State, Fairbanks health officials oppose certificate of need repeal (Daily News - Miner)

• Care shifts from physician offices to outpatient settings and costs go up, HCCI study finds (Fierce Health)

• Walmart, other employers get choosier about workers' doctors (MSN/WSJ)

• Editorial: A most sneaky attack on Oregon taxpayers (The Bulletin)

• Prevalence of Out-of-Network and Balance Bills Varies by State, Medical Specialty (XtelligentHealthcareMedia)

• To Help Mental Health Patients, Hospitals Open a New Kind of ER (Governing/KHN)

• [Health] Bills would cost Oklahoma consumers (The Oklahoman Editorial Board)

• Lehigh Valley Health hospital to shutter ER amid system consolidation (Beckers)

• Frailty before surgery tied to more complications, higher costs (Reuters)

• Some Arizona hospitals are struggling in a changing health-care economy (AZCentral)

• New bed tracking system for state inpatient psychiatric hospitals (Watertown Times)

(Previous Postings)

• Alaska Proposes Medicaid Changes Aimed at Cost Savings (USNews/AP)

• How health systems build a winning ASC strategy (Beckers)

• Repairing leaky valve improves heart failure patients' quality of life (Eureka)

• Certificate of Need' repeal stalls in Florida Senate (Sun Sentinel)

• Clark County housing problems seen as drag on public health (Las Vegas Review Journal)

• Massachusetts General's 3-step approach that cut readmission risk for substance use disorders by 25% (Advisory Board)

• IBM Watson Health crunches data and names 100 top hospitals (Health Data Management)

• HCCI: Healthcare spending, service use vary widely across the country (Fierce Health)

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