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Living with Medicare Payment Rates
As the Affordable Care Act celebrates its one year birthday, a number of realities have begun to become very apparent in the health care provider community. A very large trade off in the negotiations...
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Leadership for Successful Financial Results
In my last post, I discussed the challenge of living with Medicare payment rates. One hospital that is meeting this goal is Floyd Medical Center, a 304-bed stand alone safety net hospital in northwest...
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Hope for health care cost control
A recent report from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reported that health care spending in Minnesota grew by 3.8 percent in 2009, the slowest growth rate since 1997. The report found that...
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The Future of the Hospital Safety Net
Hennepin County Medical Center is Minnesota’s largest safety net hospital. Photo Credit: Minnesota Public Radio Last week, the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH)...
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Industry Insight: Understanding health care cost trends
This post is part of a new series designed to highlight the most significant new reports on health care management or policy–ranging from government reports to health care business studies. We will...
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Bundled payments – one more demonstration brought to life
As elements of the Accountable Care Act (ACA) are being ramped up, it is useful to understand their origin. CMS has a long history of supporting many types of payment reform demonstrations and the new...
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Paul Ryan (R) and Ron Wyden (D) suggest limits on Medicare spending — The...
This post was originally published on NIHP.org. For more than the 33 years since I was elected to the U.S. Senate, members of Congress have been working to bend the national health care cost curve....
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