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Healthcare spending grew 2.1% faster than economy, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services releases in 2015 national health expenditures.
Center will task students, faculty with applying geographic information systems technology to medical geography research.
Opportunities include expanding the list of acceptable activities, greater transparency, new tax guidance on improvement activities.
Changes to CMMI could drag down advanced alternative payment approaches, create narrower path with fewer specialty options and approaches.
HOAP authors say states should have substantial control over the delivery of healthcare, and not just when it comes to insurance.
Hospitals, meanwhile, added 5,500 jobs in the month.
Law has brought coverage to tens of thousands of previously uninsured shooting victims, often young African-American men, who missed follow-up care.
The Clinician Action Network initiated letter "The AMA does not speak for us," online, which has raked in 2,100 signatures.
Premier scored a 95.6, the highest rating of all companies analyzed, dominating in value-based care and financial improvement.
Nina Owcharenko leads Heritage's Center for Health Policy studies; Scott Gottlieb is former FDA deputy commissioner.