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CareDx in California is pushing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to keep the current reimbursement price for its heart transplant blood test AlloMap, or the company may have to close, according to CEO Peter Maag.

As hospitals go on a buying spree for physician practices, ambulatory centers and other outpatient facilities, supply chain giant Henry Schein is raking it in amid all off this consolidation.

Although larger practices may have the resources to provide benefits to patients through better care coordination or access to new technologies, among other things, these practices' greater market power may enable them to charge higher prices than smaller practices, the study authors said.

Over 385,000 providers referred products such as wheelchairs, walkers and diabetes supplies in 2013, according to CMS.

Instead of taking on hundreds of changes, physician groups often only have the bandwidth to implement a few meaningful and targeted changes.

While payer-provider collaboration has long been important, new trends in managing population health data is strengthening that relationship as never before, according to MedeAnalytics CEO Andy Hurd, and in many ways it's changing how providers think.

The agencies claimed the rules threatened irreparable damage to businesses that provide in-home care for seniors and the disabled.

While providing medical services to the public has traditionally been seen as a domestic business, recent acquisitions of British healthcare concerns by Tenet Healthcare and Acadia Healthcare suggest that more U.S. healthcare providers are looking overseas for growth.

Private Health Management, a Los Angeles based company that - for a substantial fee - helps patients figure out what's wrong with them, often after an array of doctors have failed to do so.

"Severe and unexpected cuts" to Medicaid payments in the Connecticut budget have stalled talks of a joint venture between Hartford HealthCare and Day Kimball Healthcare, according to Hartford HealthCare.