System: gainsharing not fair. RWJ wants pilot project shut down or open to all.
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.↗
Biomedical subjects
Cinda Becker
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Open for business. Proactive approach helps maintain good vascular access for dialysis patients and reduces the cost of care for providers.
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Ambulatory Care Facilities↗
Cautiously quiet. Execs tight-lipped about Baxter shake-up.
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Administrative Personnel↗
Back from the brink. Walter Becker specializes in helping rural, financially stressed hospitals regain their health.
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Chief Executive Officers, Hospital↗
GNYHA, SEIU to heal N.Y.
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Health Care Reform↗
Too big? Caremark, AdvancePCS getting close look from feds.
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Antitrust Laws↗
Taking it to heart. Availability of emergency angioplasty could be key to best outcomes for heart attack patients--but offering the service might not be so healthy for a hospital's finances.
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Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary↗
Support for scans. Studies present strong case for CT screening.
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Colonic Neoplasms↗
New Jersey experiment. Eight hospitals will participate in CMS 'gainsharing' project, in which doctors can earn bonuses of up to 25% on Medicare fees.
A CMS project will let doctors earn bonuses for helping hospitals cut inpatient costs, using software designed by Michael Kalison, left. But not everyone is excited about the plan, including U.S. Rep. Pete Stark, the California Democrat who championed the physician self-referral legislation the CMS is waiving for the program.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.↗
Grudge match. With a new CT heart scan gaining acclaim, radiologists and cardiologists are ready to go to the mat again in battle over control of the procedure.
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Cardiology Service, Hospital↗
The art of negotiation. Comparison shopping is essential when choosing a GPO.
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Decision Making, Organizational↗
BD makes IT moves. Needle manufacturer adds digital tracking system for mass immunizations.
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Clinical Laboratory Information Systems↗
If you have it, you use it. Latest Blues association study finds new technology not only drives demand but also increases spending.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans↗
Spine-tingling prospects. Artificial disc implants are among the new technologies expected to revolutionize the outcomes of back surgery.
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Arthroplasty, Replacement↗
Change is afoot. Pittsburgh's largest systems undergo major changes in senior management.
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Chief Executive Officers, Hospital↗
Trading places. Vendors walk the floor while hospital executives man booths at unusual purchasing exhibit in Florida hosted by NCI.
Vendors truly had a captive audience at the ninth annual IDN Summit & Expo, as providers' cubicles were swarmed by company representatives offering powerful sales pitches on everything from high-tech fabrics to breast implants. NCI's open forum provided a rare view of how healthcare supplies are bought in this country. Elizabeth Duncan-Hawker, left, fielded pitches at Sentara Healthcare's booth.
Commerce↗
With bated breath. Though Medicare will begin reimbursing for surgery to aid some emphysema patients, questions remain over benefit, cost.
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Aged↗
Premier's portfolio. Investments more extensive than revealed earlier.
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