May 22, 2012
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Daily Briefing
Executives at a handful of struggling Brooklyn, N.Y., hospitals have dismissed last year's Brooklyn Work Group recommendations, which called for mergers and closings at seven of the borough's poorest hospitals.
May 21, 2012
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Daily Briefing
Prominent health systems are lobbying Massachusetts lawmakers to avoid "overreaching" on new legislation intended to control state health care costs.
May 10, 2012
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Daily Briefing
Massachusetts Senate leaders on Wednesday unveiled legislation to control health care costs, outlining a plan that grants hospitals and physicians more leeway on cost-cutting efforts than the plan outlined in a House bill released last week.
May 14, 2012
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Daily Briefing
Four former CMS administrators have one month to develop a plan to overhaul the widely panned Medicare physician payment system.
May 11, 2012
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Daily Briefing
The House on Thursday voted to override automatic cuts triggered by last year's failure to reach a debt deal and instead cut funding for entitlement programs.
May 11, 2012
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Daily Briefing
The federal health reform law offers tax credits to help provide workers' health coverage—but 57% of small businesses say they are unaware of the provision.
May 11, 2012
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Daily Briefing
Couples retiring this year can expect to pay 4% more in future health care costs than those who retired last year, according to the latest annual projections from Fidelity Investments.
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From Holding the Line on Labor Costs.
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From Holding the Line on Labor Costs.
May 09, 2012
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Daily Briefing
The American Hospital Association's legislative agenda emphasizes the importance of drug shortage legislation and the extension of certain Medicare provisions.