HealthLeadersMedia.com | November 19 - There will be wide variability in the types of accountable care organizations that are established in the near future. Some will be tightly organized around existing integrated delivery networks. Others will be based on independent physician associations without an integrated...

ModernHealthcare.com | November 19 - An alliance of six associations representing U.S. hospitals formally filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing the Obama administration in the marquee lawsuit among several aiming to gut the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The American Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals,...

HealthLeadersMedia.com | November 11 - Hospital leaders are objecting to draft recommendations issued Wednesday that would impose earlier and more draconian pay cuts to hospitals and doctors, and slice many programs that support hospital programs that serve the poor. The report from the co-chairs of the National...

HealthLeadersMedia.com | November 10 - Cuts in Medicare reimbursements can significantly reduce unnecessary care, according to a study conducted by university researchers and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Study authors from the University of Michigan, University of Florida and University of Texas Medical Branch in...