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- US Supreme Court Rebuffs UnitedHealth Group Challenge on Medicare Overpayments (Medscape/Reuters)
- Buy and Bust: When Private Equity Comes for Rural Hospitals (KHN)
- FTC notches another antitrust win as HCA Healthcare, Steward Health Care call off 5-hospital sale (Fierce Health)
- Medicare, Beneficiaries Saw Higher Prices at Provider-Based Facilities (Rev Cycle)
- Opinion: Did performance-based nursing home payments meet their match with COVID? (The Hill)
- Federal Bill Aims to Free Up Nursing Homes Facing Education ‘Lockouts’ Triggered By CMPs (Skilled Nursing News)
- AHA to CMS: Proposed inpatient, LTCH payment updates ‘woefully inadequate’ (AHA)
- Inpatient volume expected to grow 2% in 10 years, SG2 report says (ACDIS)
- Medicare Advantage Represents a Growing Share of Medicare Enrollment (Health Payer)
- Kentucky region’s hospital emergency rooms are dealing with an influx of teens seeking mental health treatment (Northern Kentucky Tribune)
- New Guideline for In-Hospital Care of Diabetes Says Use CGMs (Medscape)
- Oregon State Hospital's proposed safety fixes unacceptable, CMS says (Beckers)
- Betting on 'Golden Age' of Colonoscopies, Private Equity Invests in Gastro Docs (Medscape/KHN)
- George Washington University has sold its 20 percent minority interest of George Washington University Hospital to Universal Health Services, making the health system the sole owner of the hospital. (Beckers)
- CMS extends annual postpartum Medicaid, CHIP coverage to 4 states (Fierce Health)
- Study: High cost of cancer care in the U.S. doesn’t reduce mortality rates (EurekaAlert!)
- Pediatric suicide attempts by poisoning on the rise, study says (The Hill)
- In Minneapolis, a mobile van rolls out with health care outreach to kids (Star Tribune)
- Hospital Prices 224% Higher for Private Payers than Medicare (Rev Cycle)
- Concerning Spike in Barrett's Esophagus, Esophageal Cancer in Middle-Age Adults (MedPage Today)
- MedStar Washington Hospital Center is 1st in (D.C.) region to perform robotic heart surgery (WTOP)
- Bane of My Existence:' The Burden of Medicare Advantage Denials (Medcape)
- Immunotherapy after bladder cancer surgery shows excellent cancer-free survival rates (MedicalXpress)
- Most Men With Low-Risk Prostate Tumors Now Forgoing Treatment (Medscape)
- South Carolina's certificate-of-need reform legislation dies (Becker’s)
- South Carolina hospitals pushing for reform on certificate of need process (WBTW)
- Up to 14M enrollees could lose Medicaid coverage as states restart eligibility checks (Fierce Health)
- U.S. Supreme Court to weigh private lawsuits over federal nursing home rules (Reuters)
- States pay close attention as Massachusetts blocks hospital expansions to control health care costs (MSN/Kaiser)
- Downsized City Sees Its Health Care Downsized as Hospital Awaits Demolition (KHN)
- Transitional care practice helps reduce healthcare costs (NewsMedical)
- Association Between Hospital Private Equity Acquisition and Outcomes of Acute Medical Conditions Among Medicare Beneficiaries (Jama Network)
- FAH Requests Hospital Merger Guideline Consistency from DOJ, FTC (RevCycle)
- Three patient deaths, and many others in misery, prompts $250,000 in fines at 5 Mass. nursing homes (Boston Globe)
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