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- Leapfrog releases 2013 annual survey results, gets record hospital participation (FierceHealthcare)
- Hospital Systems Looking to Increase Expansion into Urgent Care (Motley Fool)
- The Ten Most Expensive Cities for Health Care (Forbes)
- About the Changing Role and Mission of Hospitals: A New York State Example (Utica Observer-Dispatch)
- Tenet Innovates With a New Hospital Model in Texas (HealthLeaders Media)
- Hospital Community Benefit Spending: For Population Health? (Modern Healthcare)
- Hospital Charges Surge for Common Ailments, Data Shows (NY Times)
- Hospitals Reduce Charity Care Under the Affordable Care Act (NY Times)
- Freestanding ERs Being Licensed in Rural Georgia (ABC News)
- Health Disparities in the U.S. Lead to Hundreds of Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths Each Year (LA Times)
- States with Worst Health Care System Performance (The Atlantic)
- Scorecard on State Health System Performance (Commonwealth Fund Full Report), 2014 (Commonwealth Fund)
- Maryland hospitals must trim readmissions by nearly 7% or miss out on revenue boost (Baltimore Business Journal)
- Rural ERs face serious hurdle (Albany Herald)
- Community hospitals on front line of Medicaid battle (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
- CT Attorney General George Jepsen: Hospitals not clearly
informing patients of ‘facility’ fees (New Haven Register)
- Hospital-dependent patients drive up readmissions, costs (NYTimes Well Blog)
- Why walk-in healthcare is a fast growing profit center for retail chains (Washington Post)
- Connecticut Considers New For-Profit Hospital Regulations (The Hartford Courant)
- New Report Addresses the Funding for Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH) (The Commonwealth Fund)
- Surgical Mortality Rates in Hospitals Reflect the Socioeconomic Status of the Communities They Serve (Reuters)
- iVantage Health Analytics Names America’s Best Healthcare Cities (iVantage Health Analytics)
- Economy Stokes Tensions Between Hospitals, Labor (Pittsburgh Post - Gazette)
- Cleveland Clinic's bundled payment plan draws out-of-state patients (Bloomberg)
- About Hospital Community Benefit Programs and the Community (Fierce Healthcare)
- Inpatient Stays Drive Price Variation (Beckers Hospital Review)
- Many Florida hospitals charge enormous "trauma" fees (Tampa Bay News)
- Hospital Inpatient Volume Continues to Decline (Healthcare Finance News)
- A Push for Less Testing in Emergency Rooms (Wall Street Journal)
- Medicare Cut a Threat for Critical Care Access Hospitals (Wichita Eagle)
- Patients caught in price war between MeadowlandsHospital and UnitedHealthCare (NorthJersey.com)
- Where Have All the Inpatients Gone? A Regional Study with National Implicaitons (Health Affairs)
- States Look to cut sosts for treating dual-eligibles (PEW Stateline)
- Reduction in Hospital Psychiatric Beds a National Trend? (The Florida Times-Union)
- Anthem says narrow network allows significant consumer
savings; More providers would mean higher premiums (Rochester Times)
- Dialysis in NYC Hospitals Presents a Challenge for CON (NY Times)
- Hospital bankruptcies a result of trends, not a single event (Healthcare Finance News)
- Higher Service Volume Shown to Improve Outcomes for Severe Sepsis in Academic Medical Centers (Science Daily)
- Report on Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Model Leads to Reduced Cost of Care, Improved Population Health (Milbank Memorial Fund)
- Patients' Cost Rise while Specialists' Income Soars (NY Times)
- Maryland's Bold Hospital Spending Plan Gets Federal Blessing (Kaiser Health News)
- Presumptive Eligibility for Medicaid Enrollment Varies Across Country (Health Affairs)
- Nonprofit Health Centers Go Into For-Profit Insurance Business (Kaiser Health News)
- Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Hospitals Being Questioned by More Localities (The New York Times)
- 2013 County Health Rankings (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- South Seattle Program Is a Model for Integration of Mental and Physical Health (Seattle Times)
- NY Medicaid ditching fee for service (Healthcare Payer News)
- Continued Hospital Closures Threaten Healthcare in One-Hospital Towns (US News &
World Report)
- Subsidies for Safety-Net Hospitals Reduced by the ACA (NY Times)
- The NYS Hospital Association Grades the Graders (The Washington Post/Kaiser
Health News)
- The ACA is Encouraging Some Non-Profit Hospitals to Merge with For-Profits (Bloomberg)
- Mississippi Patients and Hospitals Threatened by Rejection of Medicaid Expansion Driven by Political Polarization (Reuters)
- Capacity Management thru Regional Health Planning/CON Cited for Giving Rochester the Nation’s Lowest Medicare Costs (Wall Street Journal)
- Rural Critical Access Hospitals Threatened by Medicare Cost Containment Policy (Kansas Health Institute)
- Disproportionate Impact Seen on Rural Hospitals from Regulatory Changes (Fierce Healthcare)
- Georgia CON Decision Raises Questions About State Action Immunity (HealthLeaders Media)
- Doctors Who Profit From Radiation Prescribe It More Often, Study Finds (NYTimes.com)
- Report Documents Improvement of NY Hospitals Over a Decade: Continuous Quality Improvement Through Public Reporting? (Wall Street Journal)
- The Story of How Atlanta’s Safety-Net Hospital, Grady Memorial, Was Saved (Health Affairs)
- New Laws and Rising Costs Create a Surge of Supersizing
Hospitals (NY Times)
- Physician-owned Hospitals Expand in Texas (The Dallas Morning News)
- Nurse/patient staffing ratios to be on November ballot again in Massachusetts (The Boston Globe)
- Hospitals Lobby Against Revealing Their Mistakes (Forbes)
- A Mixed Funding Future Faces Community Health Centers (Reuters)
- Freestanding EDs Represent New Competition for Both Hospitals and Urgent Care Centers (USA Today)
- Competition, Not Need, Drives Hospital Cardiac Care Investment (The Washington Post)
- Hospitals’ Market Dominance Drives Up Costs (NY Times)
- New York Is Still a Model for Using Health Planning to Regionalize Specialized Hospital Services (The Washington Post)
- Maryland Proposes to Regulate Total Hospital Costs (Washington Post)
- States’ Decisions on Medicaid Widen Healthcare Disparities (LA Times)
- Controversy Continues Over CON’s Regulation of ASCs in North Carolina (The Charlotte Observer)
- Hospitals’ “Community Benefits” Spending Does Little for Community (MedPage Today)
- Community Benefits Represent 11.6% of Nonprofit Hospital Spending (Fierce Healthcare)
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Our blogroll provides links to blogs that provide interesting and timely content.
It is not an endorsement in any way of any specific blog.
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 Archive of Selected Older News Articles
Links to a collection of selected new items highlighted in past years
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The American Health Planning Association is a non-profit membership organization committed to health policies and the creation of health service systems that promote quality, assure equal access, and advocate reasonable costs.Through its newsletter, web site, educational endeavors, and research projects, AHPA supports its members and the healthcare community.
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