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CMS on Tuesday announced Patrick Conway, who holds multiple leadership positions at the agency, is leaving to take over as CEO and president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia.
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Advisory Board's Eric Fontana says the firm's analysis of Medicare fee-for-service claims indicates that 48 percent of the nearly 275,000 total knee replacement cases without major complications performed in 2016 could theoretically be candidates for an ambulatory procedure.
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