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Leaders of the Campaign for Better Care, a broad-based coalition of consumer organizations, have come out in support of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed rule for accountable care organizations, saying CMS is putting patients first.
Person Memorial Hospital, a rural North Carolina hospital, will be the second hospital to affiliate with Duke LifePoint Healthcare, a joint venture between the Duke University Health System and LifePoint Hospitals.
Leaders of the Campaign for Better Care (CBC), a broad-based coalition of consumer organizations, recently submitted comments on the proposed ACO rule, commending the federal government for putting patients first.
BancTec, a Dallas-based provider of business process outsourcing and transaction automation services, has been validated compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) by Trustwave, a provider of information security and compliance solutions.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that it would no longer provide Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals and providers for injuries, illnesses or hospitalizations that could have been prevented. The announcement is in support of a provision within the Affordable Care Act that prohibits states from making payments to providers for "reasonably preventable" conditions.
The California Assembly has passed AB 52, a bill that would give the California Insurance Commissioner the power to reject or change health insurance rate increases that are deemed excessive.
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Project has launched a Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health IT. The Task Force, co-chaired by former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, now co-leaders of the Health Project, includes 24 health system experts and leaders.
Hundreds of disgruntled registered nurses from 31 states, including more than 150 from Massachusetts, plan to rally in Washington D.C. next week, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association.
St. Peter's Health Partners is the new name of an upstate New York health system to be created when the merger of Northeast Health, St. Peter's Health Care Services and Seton Health is completed later this summer.