Modern Healthcare - 2017-08-14

• CBO to weigh in on cost-sharing reduction payments
• WEST Appeals court nixes California’s Medicaid pay cuts to hospitals
• Kaiser misses repeating a $1 billion operating gain . . . this quarter
• LTAC hospitals saved from $85 million cut, for now
• Employers linking center-of-excellence contracts to value-based pay
• Slowdown in hospital admissions could be the new norm
• Despite up to $26B in projected savings, bidding program still questioned
• Results of CMS’ readmissio­ns program has hospitals, experts questionin­g its purpose
• The CMS says factoring patient socio-economic status into readmissio­n penalties won’t change much
• Overcoming past mistakes with patients in medical research
• Management guru’s wisdom more important than ever as healthcare strives to reward value
• We need to revolution­ize conversati­ons between doctors and patients
• Bipartisan solutions essential, but let’s take it even further
• Drawing inspiratio­n from Apple to reshape provider, patient experience
• ‘Good people with high levels of idealism or altruism are getting frustrated by the increasing complexity’
• Working on a new Rx—for video games

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