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• CMS unveils new rural health strategy (Modern Healthcare)
•  CMS Rural Strategy 2018

• Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels (Case Western)

• Maryland's all-payer model gets feds' OK to expand, aims for $1B in health care savings (Baltimore Business Journal)

• Alaska hospitals, nursing homes face budget gap in Legislature’s bill (Juneau Empire)

• Hospitals branch out in the suburbs with more urgent care centers (Boston Globe)

• 'A major toll': Effects of state cuts to mental healthcare reverberate in region (Montana Standard)

• Louisiana Senate committee's “budget” meant to calm fear over health care cuts (The Times-Picayune)

• Mass. Senate overwhelmingly passes health care bill (Journal Inquirer)

• We should tackle [Georgia’s] health care problems without creating bigger government (Opinion: Macon Telegraph)

• Health Information Exchange Hindered by Patient Matching Issues (E H R  Intel)

• N.J. health legislation focuses on nursing home oversight, handicap parking and more (Press Atlantic City)

• Does KanCare work? The state's data is so bad, legislative auditors can't tell (Kansas City Star)

• Total knee arthroplasty – No longer inpatient only (Becker’s)

• Hospital at Home Models Can Improve Care Delivery and Reduce Unnecessary ED Care (AJMC)

• Using Health IT to Meet Medicaid Population Health, Socioeconomic Needs Using Health IT to Meet Medicaid Population Health, Socioeconomic Needs (Health IT)

• Judge tosses Envision lawsuit against United Health (Modern Healthcare)

• Recruit, retain, repeat: Iowa faces doctor shortage (The Gazette)

• Prime Therapeutics Finds Poor Adherence to High-Cost Multiple Sclerosis Therapy (St Paul Business Journal)

• Medicare kidney failure patients enter hospice too late to reap full benefits (EurekAlert)

• Emergency Department Care for Older Adults With Cancer (Physician Weekly)

• North Bay new parents get sticker shock from baby-delivery bills (North Shore Journal)

• U.S. Markets Less Saturated with Home Health Providers (Home Health News)

• Care Coordination for Children With Special Needs in Medicaid: Lessons From Medicare (AJMC)

• Effective Palliative Care: What Is Involved? (CancerNetwork)

• Flurry of Medicare Advantage and Part D Changes Includes Significant Policy Shifts (JDSupra)

• Payment Bundles That Include Drug Costs May Destabilize Cancer Care Delivery Environment (ASCO)

• As Opioid Prescriptions Decline, Abuse Treatment Costs Rise for Health Plans (Insurance Journal)

• Costs of HF Higher For Minorities; Waste Isn't the Problem (MedPage)

• Children’s Hospitals of the King’s Daughters seeks state approval for a $50 million mental health facility (Virginia Pilot)

• COPD Study Fails to Find Model That Can Predict Exacerbations  (AJMC)

• Making Better Use of Health Care Data (Harvard Business Review)

• Vermont Regulators pitch ‘unique’ solution in hospital budget debate (VTDigger)

• Opinion: Would tax incentives solve rural Minnesota’s health care crisis? (NewsPress)

• HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley receives approval for $92 Million hospital transformation (Poughkeepsie Journal)

• Medicaid Became a Leading Payer for Inpatient Hospital Stays Over 15 Years, Report Finds (AJMC)

• News Brief from AHRQ: Trends in Hospital Inpatient Stays by Age and Payer, 2000-2015
  https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb235-Inpatient-Stays-Age-Payer-Trends.jsp

• Addressing Prices, Use at Local Level to Lower Healthcare Costs (Revcycle)

• NRHI Full Report:
  Healthcare Affordability: Untangling Cost Drivers
  http://www.nrhi.org/uploads/benchmark_report_final_web.pdf
  
  

• Emergency Or Not? Ky. Medicaid Changes Will Penalize For Unnecessary ER Visits (WFPL)

• Michigan plan would move Medicaid long-term care into managed care (Modern Healthcare)

• Blood transfusions, one of the most common – and most overused – hospital procedures in the United States decline 2011-14 (Cornell)

• 10 medical conditions with the highest average cost per inpatient stay (Beckers)

• Vermont Hospitals Over Budget in 2017 (Vnews)

• Health care prices high in Colorado (Daily Sentinel)

• Study: Total Cost of Care Multi-State Analysis

http://www.civhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Total-Cost-of-Care-Spot-Analysis.pdf

• Health Spending Growth Is Accelerating; Prices Are In The Driver’s Seat (Health Affairs)

• Hospitals facing financial hit as flu season continues to worsen (Modern Healthcare)

• CMS Inpatient-Only List: Preparing for Critical Changes in 2018 (HealthLeaders)

• What healthcare leaders should prioritize in 2018 — 2 C-suite veterans weigh in (Beckers)

• Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals Report 2017: more than 10 percent membership growth and consistent operating performance (PRNewswire)

• Medicare Advantage plans underpay rural providers (Daily Collegian)

• MedPAC Reports Lower Readmission Rates and Reduced Medicare Spending With HRRP (AJMC)

• House Bill Retains Low-Quality Medicare Advantage Plans until 2027 (Health Payer Intelligence)

• Working Americans using less health care, but paying more, report says (Times Free Press)
• Full Report:
  The 2016 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report  
  
  
• Study: Frail older adults experience higher rates of delirium after surgery (UPI)

• Problems With CMS’s Per Capita Cost Measure Push Down Medicare Advantage Rates And Create Geographic Inequities (Health Affairs)

• A Push To Get Older Adults In Better Shape For Surgery (Kaiser Health News)

• Health Systems Form Drug Company to Combat Rising Costs, Shortages (RevCycle)

• Medicare Advantage can disadvantage seniors needing skilled nursing (Reuters)

• Allegheny General Hospital Neurosurgeons First in Pennsylvania to Use Groundbreaking Robotic Surgery System (Businesswire)

• Innovaccer Launches Provider Utilization Portal to Deliver Drilled Down Inpatient, Outpatient, and SNF Utilization Reports (PR Newswire)

• Hospital profits, uncompensated care climb (Modern Healthcare)

• Look for more care in outpatient settings as hospitals consider cost containment and hiring strategies to stay above water (HealthDive)

• Opinion: Rural health care centers jeopardized (Wisconsin News: Rochester Post)

• Pediatric cardiologist in Topeka brings specialty care to medically under served areas (Topeka Capital Journal)

• Care Coordination, Community Health Workers Reduce ED Costs, Use (RevCycle)

• Commentary: Want to cut health care costs? Start with the obscene amount of waste (Chicago Trib)

• Cancer death rate down 26 percent since 1991 (UPI)

 

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