Daily Briefing July 10, 2015 | The Daily Briefing Today's Daily Briefing View Archives Print Today's Daily Briefing Subscribe Latest News CMS's bundled payment proposal is huge news. Here's why. July 10, 2015 Medicare wants to make bundled payments mandatory, and Rob Lazerow explains how the proposal would work—and why it's a signal moment in the push for value-based care. More Doc who gave fake cancer diagnoses sentenced to 45 years in prison July 10, 2015 A federal judge on Friday sentenced Farid Fata to 45 years in federal prison for a fraud scheme that involved prescribing unnecessary cancer treatments to more than 550 patients. More Annual list names nation's 'Most Wired' hospitals July 10, 2015 Hospitals & Health Networks on Thursday released its 17th annual list of the nation's "Most Wired" hospitals, recognizing more than 300 hospitals for successful health IT planning and implementation. More Obama nominates Slavitt to officially lead CMS—but confirmation questions loom July 10, 2015 President Obama on Thursday nominated acting CMS administrator Andy Slavitt to formally head the agency, but his nomination could face pushback from Republicans over his previous position at UnitedHealth and GOP opposition to the Affordable Care Act. More MGMA: Primary care doctors' pay has jumped nearly 10% since 2012 July 10, 2015 Average compensation for primary care physicians rose faster than compensation for specialists last year, in part because of new payment methods, according to a report from the Medical Group Management Association. More How physicians can adapt to compensation changes July 10, 2015 Stephen Siegel and Frederick Segal of Broad and Cassel share how government and private payers are moving physician reimbursement away from a fee-for-service model toward a value-based model, and what changes physicians must make to adapt. More Weekend reads: Why do narcissists brag so much? Blame a brain deficit July 10, 2015 What will it take to beat the next Ebola? Can computer chips get any smaller? This and more in our reading list for the weekend. More We're sleeping less than ever. Are our phones to blame? July 10, 2015 Despite the well-known benefits of sleep, Americans are sleeping less than ever. The New Yorker's Maria Konnikova investigates why our sleep habits have gotten worse, and how we can fix them. More Around the nation: New York's plan to end AIDS as an epidemic in the state by 2020 July 10, 2015 Bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Montana, New York, and South Carolina. More