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• State's [Illinois]new capital plan putting $200 million toward hospital, health care “transformations” (News-Gazette)

• South Dakota lawmakers ease regulations on nursing home beds (Rapid City Journal)

• Hospitals could multiply in Florida as state cancels certificate-of-need requirement (Beckers)

• Medicare For All Finances Healthcare Problems Instead of Fixing Them (Forbes)

• OIG: CMS needs to strengthen hospice oversight, transparency (Fierce Health)

• Related: OIG Report -Hospice Deficiencies Pose Risks to Medicare Beneficiearies
• OIG attacks hospice quality problems (McKnights)/Move over nursing homes, you have company (McKnights:2)

• More private sector workers are enrolling kids in public health insurance, study finds (Beckers)

• Health Affairs Study: Growth Of Public Coverage Among Working Families In The Private Sector

• Rural hospital closures leave residents with few options: 'It's a fight every day' (ABCNews)

• Related: Opinion: Merger of rural hospitals kept them viable for Northeast Tennessee (Tennesean)
• Country Closures: Rural Communities Adapt As More Hospitals Shut Down (WFPL)
• Community Voices: Rural hospitals at risk (Johnson City Press)

• The Grim State of Urban Hospitals (USNews)

• Related: Pennsylvania issues cease and desist letter for closure of Hahnemann Hospital (PhillyVoice)
• What Happens To Patients If Louisville’s Jewish Hospital Closes? (WFPL)

• Health-care bill clears N.C. Senate after certificate-of-need language cut (Winston Salem Journal)

• Encompass Health agrees to pay $48M in false claims case (FierceHealth)

• HCA Asks Judge to Toss Lawsuit Alleging ER 'Cover Charge' (HealthLeaders)

• Opinion:Hospital bill isn’t protecting patients, group says. It’s protecting profits.(NJ.com)

• Teaching Hospitals Aren’t More Expensive Than Non-Teaching Peers  (RevCycle)

• Study:Comparison of Costs of Care for Medicare Patients Hospitalized in Teaching and Nonteaching Hospitals (JAMA)

• Impact Of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, And Physician Assistants On Utilization And Costs For Complex Patients (Health Affairs)

• Suicide's Link to Nursing Homes, Long-Term Care (USNews)

• Study:Suicide Among Older Adults Living in or Transitioning to Residential Long-term Care, 2003 to 2015 (JAMA)

• House votes to overturn ban on national patient identifier (ModernHealthcare)

Recent CVS-Aetna Merger Hearings Signal Challenges Ahead (HealthPayer)

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