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Mashup Score: 1Elevance Health says star ratings snub cost insurer $375M - 18 hour(s) ago
Yet another major insurer is taking the federal government to court over all-important star ratings results. | Elevance Health is hitting back at CMS star ratings over statistical variation and inability of replication in the latest lawsuit to face the feds.
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Everyone agrees primary care is crucial to a functioning healthcare ecosystem and to a healthy society. | Everyone agrees primary care is crucial, yet it isn’t working as well as it should be. A panel of primary care executives considered the drawbacks of the traditional model and opportunities for the sector at HLTH last month.
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Mashup Score: 2Handshakes and happy hours: Can HLTH cause an infectious disease spike? Verily aims to find out - 20 hour(s) ago
How does a multiday mass gathering affect the local concentration of diseases like COVID-19? | Verily is working with the Las Vegas water treatment agency, water authority and health department to monitor the local wastewater for eight different pathogens. The pilot project was timed around the HLTH conference, with daily testing happening from one week before to one week after. A report on the findings will be available in the coming weeks.
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Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D., R-Louisiana, and Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, published a policy paper advocating to impose site-neutral Medicare payments on hospitals. | The lawmakers argue that site-neutral Medicare payment reform would lead to lower healthcare costs for patients and save taxpayer dollars. However, hospital groups were quick to slam the proposal.
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Mashup Score: 0Election 2024: Where do Harris and Trump stand on health policy? - 21 hour(s) ago
Nov. 5, 2024, is here. Voters will head to the polls to cast their ballots in the presidential election, shaping the course of health policy for the next four years. | Although healthcare has not always been the most prominent discussion surrounding the 2024 election, both candidates have different visions on policy.
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Mashup Score: 2Handshakes and happy hours: Can HLTH cause an infectious disease spike? Verily aims to find out - 1 day(s) ago
How does a multiday mass gathering affect the local concentration of diseases like COVID-19? | Verily is working with the Las Vegas water treatment agency, water authority and health department to monitor the local wastewater for eight different pathogens. The pilot project was timed around the HLTH conference, with daily testing happening from one week before to one week after. A report on the findings will be available in the coming weeks.
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Mashup Score: 0Steward Health Care agrees to sell physician group to private equity affiliate in $245M deal - 2 day(s) ago
Steward Health Care has agreed to sell its physicians network, Stewardship Health, to Rural Healthcare Group, which is owned by a private equity group. | Steward Health Care has agreed to sell its doctors network, Stewardship Health, to Rural Healthcare Group, which is owned by a private equity group.
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Mashup Score: 2UnitedHealth Group, University of Minnesota partner to launch course on value-based care - 2 day(s) ago
Making true progress toward value-based care requires buy-in and understanding from physicians—and for them to be willing to find common ground with insurers for collaborating. | UnitedHealth Group partnered with the University of Minnesota’s medical school to launch a four-week elective course that exposes fourth-year medical students to value-based care and has them working in person with Optum clinicians.
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Mashup Score: 3CMS finalizes 2.9% pay increase for outpatient facilities, ASCs, with new maternal health mandates - 2 day(s) ago
Under a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, outpatient hospital facilities and ambulatory surgical centers will get a 2.9% Medicare pay increase next year, up from | Under a final rule issued by CMS, outpatient hospital facilities and ambulatory surgical centers will get a 2.9% Medicare pay increase next year, up from the 2.6% boost in reimbursement that was floated in the draft rule.
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In a bid to ease access challenges, CVS Health will offer in-network primary care to Aetna members in certain markets through its MinuteClinics. | In a bid to ease access challenges, CVS Health will offer in-network primary care to Aetna members in certain markets through its MinuteClinics.
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