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Controversial proposal by the Health and Human Services Department drew letters from 4,000 organizations, individuals in 20-day comment period.
Issues include dirty supply storage areas, canceled procedures due to supply shortages, use of expired equipment on patients, report says.
Study found that the combined impact of all three programs netted $32 million in cost savings in 2015.
Providers, researchers, hospital leaders are expected to use the reports to help raise awareness on health disparities, develop interventions.
Without the cost-sharing reduction payments that allow insurers to lower deductibles, premiums in silver plans could jump by 19 percent, study says.
Tool allows purchasers to estimate the number of avoidable deaths among covered lives, related financial details.
The 14-bed hospital serves all of Butte County, whose population of 2,501is spread over territory half the size of Connecticut.
Researchers concluded that when states expanded eligibility they saw larger health care expenditures covered by federal funding.
Acquisitions rose to 48 in the first quarter, a 78 percent jump from fourth quarter of 2016, data shows.
Most will have to ramp up services to meet MACRA compliance standards, need to educate themselves on law itself, ASCO says.