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• 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)

• Cancer Care Spending and Use by Site of Provider-Administered Chemotherapy in Medicare (AJMC)

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

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

• Hospital Discharge Algorithm Saves $860 Per Patient Episode and Reduces Readmissions, According to New Data from Remedy Labs (Businesswire)

• Study:Association of Decision Support for Hospital Discharge Disposition With Outcomes (AJMC)

• A Large-Scale Advanced Illness Intervention Informs Medicare’s New Serious Illness Payment Model (HealthAffairs)

• CMS plans to release list of 400 troubled nursing homes following Senate report (FierceHealth)

• Related: Feds Respond To Toomey-Casey Nursing Home Report, Say Lack Of Funding Prevents Oversight (WESA)

• Florida may eliminate certificate of need requirement for new hospitals (BDC)

• As dispute-resolution bill advances in NY, hospitals ramp up opposition (Crains)

• Study links Blue Cross' big size to Michigan's low hospital prices (Detroit Free Press)

• North Carolina Senate puts hospital certificate of need reforms in budget (WRAL)

• Dartmouth study reveals how ACOs use home visits to improve care and reduce hospital use (MedExpress)

• Coming to Terms With [Inpatinet to Outpatient Health] Care Migration (AJMC)

• Online tool can help Pennsylvania cancer patients decide where to have surgery (Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Editorial: The Florida Legislature embraces the wild west of health care as State lawmakers voted to deregulate construction of new hospitals. That’s not healthy for the state or for nonprofit hospitals that care for most of the poor. (Tampa Bay Times)

• On Maryland's Eastern Shore, local hospital is downsized — and residents are outraged at UMMS (Baltimore Sun)

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