Modern Healthcare - 2019-01-28

• Senate, House committees set sights on Big Pharma
• Ascension’s leadership changes
• California’s drug-pricing plan could slash 340B program payments
• Senate GOP leaders join coalition disputing organ allocation change
• Medicaid enrollees last in line when docs accepting new patients
• IRS guidance on excise tax for executive pay leaves questions for hospitals
• Uninsured rate reaches highest point since ACA implemente­d
• New York providers training staff to help human traffickin­g victims
• MACPAC wants Congress to slow down DSH cuts
• Trump vows to end balance billing
• Health systems upping pay
• Coalition tackling diagnostic errors gains some traction
• Six barriers to diagnostic accuracy
• Cost savings, disruption threat pushing more providers into home dialysis
• For more successful health policy and outcomes, we need to think like humans
• Story on quality measures seriously overlooks critical improvemen­ts
• We need to agree on definition of high-quality care
• Tending to social determinan­ts of health with software
• ‘Affordabil­ity in healthcare is a really important thing for us’
• Young patient delivers award-winning hospital gown design

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