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Money will be used to grow the company's payment network, which links up with hospitals' existing IT systems.
The model will run for five years starting Jan. 1, 2017, in Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
Organizations will focus on assessing the feasibility of the new measures within Medicaid and CHIP patient populations.
Struggling healthcare company says provision will thwart any acquisition of a controlling block of stock for six months.
Staffing and productivity issues remain, and with grace periods over, that could spell trouble.
Payout settles allegations of illegal kickbacks paid to clinic owners in exchange for referring patients for labor and delivery services to Tenet facilities.
Just two teaching hospitals with at least 500 beds earned top C. diff prevention scores, meaning their infection rates were 50 percent better than the national benchmark.
Benchmarks for expected returns are also needed, it said, as well as a deeper understanding of how investment mechanisms, such as bonds and social finance, can help improve healthcare.
This summer, the federal government directed $1.4 million to five pilot projects located in southwest Virginia as well as Tennessee and Kentucky.
Ohsumi performed pioneering experiments during the 90's that broadened the understanding of a process called autophagy.