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After months of delay, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revealed its Quality Star Rating program.
The new guidelines discourage regulators from levying fines and aligns with Trump's promise to reduce bureaucracy, regulation and government intervention in business.
Opponents say hospitals are reaping windfall profits by buying drugs at a discount but a trade group counters that cutting the program will force safety net hospitals to reduce services and layoff caregivers.
Company will use the $58 million round of financing to advance its cloud-based platform for genomics and biomedical datasets.
Concern is that lack of covered individuals will lead to increase in price of premiums.
New research suggests that public health insurance may increase cancer diagnoses, which can lead to fewer cancer deaths and lower treatment costs.
The OneCare Vermont accountable care organization is taking on capitated risk, with its provider physicians receiving a per member, per month fee.
Some providers make a policy of referring anyone without insurance to public hospitals, creating duplicate visits and diagnostic testing that strains those already struggling institutions.
Even if the World Health Organization finalizes ICD-11 in May, it will take years for U.S. doctors to start using the next classification system.
Mississippi will receive Section 1115 demonstration program extension under new policy.