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• The 2010s have proved to be an important decade for healthcare innovation and reforms. Here are the top trends that defined the time (EHRIntelligence)

• Izard County's sole hospital and its parent company have filed for bankruptcy, according to court documents submitted on Tuesday (Arkansas Gazette)

• Hospital acquisitions are linked to worse patient experience and do not improve care quality, suggest the findings of a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine (Beckers)

• Related: Hospital acquisitions had little impact on quality of care although performance on patient experience measures declined modestly, Harvard researchers found (RevCycle)
• Study Abstract: Changes in Quality of Care after Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions (NEJM [subscription for full ])

• Washington [state] health department seeks greater power to regulate private psychiatric hospitals (Seattle Times)

• Opinion: Connecticut’s Hospital agreement is a road map for funding community nonprofits (CT Mirror)

• A population health management program developed for children enrolled in Medicaid helped reduce hospital admissions and bed-days (Health Analytics)

• Study: Association of a Targeted Population Health Management Intervention with Hospital Admissions and Bed-Days for Medicaid-Enrolled Children (JAMA Network)

• The House of Representatives is working to outline future legislation to build on the 21st Century Cures Act, dubbing the effort Cures 2.0 (EHRIntelligence)

• AHIP Rejects Single-Payer Proposals, Upholds Current System (Health Payer)

• First randomized controlled trial of home hospital model in the US reports improvements in outcomes meaningful to health systems and patients -- sets stage for transformation of acute care delivery (EurekaAlert)

• Share of spending on primary care declines among employer-insured patients (Helio)

• Why United Healthcare's ASC-friendly policy could benefit anesthesia practices (Beckers)

• Researchers estimate that privately insured patients would see their annual physician payments fall by 13.4% if specialists were not allowed to bill out-of-network (HealthLeaders)

• Study: Out-Of-Network Billing And Negotiated Payments For Hospital-Based Physicians (Health Affairs)

• Five-year mortality up in older adults with unplanned [hospital] admission (MedExpress)

• Audit finds problems in [Georgia] program that sent $60M to rural hospitals (Atlanta Journal)

• Mayo Clinic Health System closes two more facilities, blames rural health care crisis (Northfield News)

• Preventing inpatient falls with injuries using integrative machine learning prediction: a cohort study (Nature:NPJ Digital Medicine)

• Vt. Gov. Scott: State of Vermont Amends Medicaid Waiver (InsuranceNews)

• Consistent hospitalist care linked to better patient outcomes, study finds (Beckers)

• JAMA Study: Association of the Work Schedules of Hospitalists With Patient Outcomes of Hospitalization

• Bad debt could rise at Oregon hospitals in line with national prediction (Portland Business Journal)

• Louisiana Medicaid patients use emergency rooms more, but not Medicaid expansion patients (Lafayette Daily Advertiser)

• Some nursing homes are illegally evicting elderly and disabled residents who can't afford to pay (MSN)

• Freestanding Emergency Departments Can Increase Patient Spending (Health Leaders)

• Study Abstract: Freestanding Emergency Department Entry and Market-level Spending on Emergency Care

• Nursing homes challenged by margins, occupancy rates (The Lowell Sun)

• Multipayer Primary Care Transformation: Impact for Medicaid Managed Care Beneficiaries (AJMC)

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