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• UVA Has Ruined Us’: Health System Sues Thousands Of Patients, Seizing Paychecks And Claiming Homes (KHN)

• Study: Cooling The Hot Spots Where Child Hospitalization Rates Are High: A Neighborhood Approach To Population Health (Health Affairs)

• CMS Announces New Enforcement Authorities to Reduce Criminal Behavior in Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP (CMS.gov)

• CVS Health-Aetna Merger Sealed, WellCare Takes Aetna’s Part D PDP (HealthPayer)

• Study:Trends in Use of Medical Imaging in US Health Care Systems and in Ontario, Canada, 2000-2016 (JAMA)

• Related: Clinician-Level Predictors for Ordering Low-Value Imaging

• Patients pay more to see hospital-owned physician practices (Benefits Pro)

• Rural Hospital Closures Boost Mortality Rates by Nearly 6% (RevCycle)

• Study: Did Medicare Advantage Payment Cuts Affect Beneficiary Access and Affordability? (AJMC)

• Data Analytic Strategies Decreasing Patient Time in Urgent Care (HealthIT)

• GA Task Force to Examine Healthcare Costs, Price Transparency (RevCycle)

• Doctor-device maker relationships ripe for fraud litigation (Crain’s)

• For many in Western Pa., UPMC-Highmark deal doesn’t end questions, frustration (TribLive)

• United Health study: Hospital inpatient spending from commercial plans tops $200B in 2018 (Fierce Health)

• Physician Burnout: Isolation, Loneliness And The Loss Of The American Hospital (Forbes)

• GAO tracks pharmacy benefit managers trends in Medicare Part D settings and finds that utilization management may restrict medication access.(Health Payer)

• CRISP, Maryland’s state-designated health information exchange, will increase integration of its advance care planning solution. (ER Intelligence)

• Study: Improving Access to High-Value Care Lowers Costs, Improves Health (AHIP)

• Here’s how ‘Medicare for All’ would affect every part of the $3.5 trillion US healthcare system (Business Insider)

Related:

• Opinion: What will happen to doctors and hospitals under Medicare-for-all? It's complicated (The Week).
• Rural Hospitals Say ‘Medicare For All’ Would End Up “Closing Our Doors” (WBUR)
• Hospitals Stand to Lose Billions Under ‘Medicare for All’ (NYT)
• Some payers, providers could thrive under 'Medicare for All.' But only if they're willing to adapt (Fierce Health)
• Opinion: The risks of ‘Medicare for all’ (Boston Globe)
• Opinion:It’s time for Democrats to get their facts right on Medicare-for-all (Washington Post)

• Four Ways to Make Evidence-Based Practice the Norm in Health Care (Harvard Business Review)

• Opinion: Democrats Are Having the Wrong Health Care Debate (NYT)

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