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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

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Hospice Care Can Lower Spending in High-Cost Regions
Incentivizing hospice care and launching hospice educational efforts in regions with high medical costs could have a significant impact on U.S. healthcare expenditures, researchers find.
CA Cancer Rates Dropped During the Recession. That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing.
People who lost their incomes or health insurance between 2008 and 2012 were less likely to get routine screenings or visit the doctor.
 

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Value-Based Care: Is it Time to Move into the Fast Lane?
“If you are able to use integrated data to drive strategic decision-making, you are really getting to value-based care nirvana.” — Amanda Skinner, vice president and general manager of managed value and risk analytics at Optum. Read this informative article now!
 

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Patient Experience isn’t a “Good Thing to Do:” It’s Everything
Some health care executive professionals regard improving the patient experience as an important, although separate, endeavor for their teams. Outcomes improvement, cost efficiency and human resources initiatives are pursued by specific committees while patient experience is the domain of others. Read this informative article now!
Instead of Trashing a $600 EpiPen, Some Patients Get a Refill
A Maine physician helps her patients sidestep the costs of an EpiPen by purchasing reusable auto-injectors and filling them with epinephrine herself.
 

AROUND THE WEB

Tenet CEO welcomes delays in Republican changes to Obamacare
Source: Reuters
UPMC extends health plan dominance over Highmark
Source: Trib Live
FL hospital CEOs make their case for southern expansion
Source: Herald-Tribune
Creditors question viability of North Philadelphia Health System
Source: Philly.com
Study finds hospital floors pose significant health risk
Source: UPI
PA hospitals part of CHS fire sale, with potential impact in Harrisburg
Source: Penn Live
Duke Health and WakeMed collaborate their heart programs to increase resources
Source: The Chronicle
NJ hospital works to improve as patients claim 'horrific' conditions
Source: NJ.com
Colorectal cancer rates rising sharply among Millennials
Source: Portland Press Herald / The Washington Post
The long history of discrimination in pain medicine
Source: The Atlantic
 

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