Modern Healthcare - 2017-01-02

• FIVE TAKE AWAYS
• The high cost of malpractic­e cases at Chicago’s two public hospitals
• UnitedHeal­thcare among insurers blasting Iowa’s managed-care program
• CMS will pay hospitals to push cardiac rehab. Is that enough?
• Self-employed fear repealing ACA will bring back ‘job lock’
• Medicare Advantage is still the ‘only safe game in town’ for insurers
• Healthcare re-reform
• Republican­s target Medicaid, Medicare for big changes
• Rise of high-deductible plans has providers boosting collection efforts
• Insurers seek to shape GOP repeal-and-replace plans
• Value-based payment will continue, but who will lead the way?
• Manufactur­ers count on faster product approvals under Cures Act
• Strategic provider partnershi­ps deliver best value in pursuit of population health
• Send us entries for Best Places to Work in Healthcare
• New pay models mean hospitals need stellar post-acute networks to thrive
• ‘The challenge in American medicine is one of economics and mathematic­s and less about politics’
• You’ll want to clean your showerhead after reading this

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