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19 Jan Patient Experience Scores Skew by Region, Providers Say

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HealthLeadersMedia | A federal proposal to base 30% of hospital "incentive" payments on patient experience scores is meeting with strong resistance, in part because of concerns that culturally, patients in some parts of the country are just harder to please. "We have to look at the...

19 Jan Six states seek to join Fla. challenge to reform law

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ModernHealthcare | Six more states have asked to join the most expansive of the various legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which would give the law's critics the ability to say a majority of states opposed the law, if the judge...

11 Jan U.S. Cancer Care Costs to Be $158 Billion in 2020

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ADVANCE for Imaging and Radiation Therapy Professionals | The estimated total cost of cancer care in the U.S. in 2020 is expected to be $158 billion assuming the most recent observed patterns of incidence, survival, and cost remain the same. This represents a 27 percent...

10 Jan Kraft gives $20M to draw doctors into community

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Boston Globe | With a $20 million gift from Robert and Myra Kraft, Partners HealthCare is launching a program to attract doctors and nurses to Massachusetts community health centers, the cornerstone of the push to reduce health costs and care for newly insured patients. The gift...

10 Jan Health Care Spending Slows, Takes Record Bite from GDP

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ImagingBiz.com | The recession put the squeeze on U.S. health care spending in 2009, but health care expenditures also took a bigger, record-setting bite out of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to a report released earlier this week by CMS. Shedding light on consistently spiraling...

19 Jan Patient Experience Scores Skew by Region, Providers Say

19 Jan Six states seek to join Fla. challenge to reform law

11 Jan U.S. Cancer Care Costs to Be $158 Billion in 2020

10 Jan Kraft gives $20M to draw doctors into community

10 Jan Health Care Spending Slows, Takes Record Bite from GDP

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