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•  Medicare Advantage Cut ER Visits 33% Compared To Fee-For-Service (Forbes)
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• Medicare Advantage Outperforms Traditional Medicare for Chronically Ill (Yahoo Finance)

• $180M EHR Implementation Project Approved at UW Medicine (EHRIntel)

• New staffing law, old struggles bedevil California nursing homes (LATimes)

• Atrium Health pilot could help narrow rural health-care gap through emerging tech (Charlotte Business Journal)

• Long-term survival worse for black survivors of in-hospital cardiac arrest (EurekaAlert!)

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• Feds threaten to boot Triangle nursing homes accused of patient abuse out of Medicare (WRAL)

• Key Issues Impacting Two-Sided Risk Accountable Care Organizations (RevCycle)

• Medicare Eyes Hospital Readmissions from Nursing Homes: Too many "boomerang" patients tied to poor care at nursing facilities (MedPageToday)

• Vermont Hospitals add emergency mental health staff (VTDigger)

• Department of Veterans Affairs makes VA nursing home ratings public (Orlando Sentinel)

• Massachusetts House passes health care bill to help community hospitals (MassLive)

• Why Is Cancer Treatment So Expensive? (U.S. News)

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• Mental health, substance abuse treatment shortage in Wyoming blamed for prison overcrowding (Gillette News Record)

• EMS bill remedies staffing problem in rural New York. (Adirondack Daily)

• 7 Surveys That Say A Lot About U.S. Healthcare:Part 2 (Forbes: Opinion)

• Trump admin finalizes Association Health Plans expansion (HealthCareDive)

• Industry experts argued hospitalization-based bundled payment models can reduce post-acute spending more effectively than outpatient-based arrangements  (RevCycle)

• Influencing physician alignment — Health systems' strategic options (Beckers)

• VCU Health builds tool to streamline communication between inpatient units and its pharmacy at discharge (FierceHealth)

• CMS Scorecard for Medicaid, CHIP Measures Draws Scrutiny From State Directors (AJMC)

• Change is Coming to a Medicare Advantage Plan Near You (Palliative Pulse)

• 2017 Hospice and Home Health Medicare Utilization Trends (Home Health Care News)

 

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