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Hospital groups seek to use reform to regulate physician-owned hospitals
It's no secret that there's no love lost between traditionally-structured hospitals and physician-owned facilities. After all, traditional hospitals claim that the physician-owned players cherry-pick... Read more...
Hospital lobby asked to look for healthcare savings
Can hospitals really deliver healthcare savings? The Senate Finance Committee is asking them to deliver, specifically by finding ways to shave costs off of Medicare and Medicaid over the next decade.... Read more...
Groups share details on $2T cost-savings offer
Still wondering how a collection of even the most powerful healthcare groups can shave $2 trillion off the growth in healthcare costs over the next decade? This week's letter from the American... Read more...
Antitrust laws could hobble healthcare reform
A couple of weeks ago, President Obama and several major interest groups announced that they'd be able to cut $2 trillion off of the growth in healthcare spending over the next decade. That sounds... Read more...
Senators ponder varied tax increases, including non-profit hospital tax
Obviously, if we're going to lay out billions--if not trillions--to reform the U.S. health system, we'll have to pay for it somehow. The problem is, funding health reforms almost certainly means... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: AHA challenging legislators' cost-saving ideas
The American Hospital Association is not pleased with several proposals being considered by the Senate Finance Committee as approaches to lowering Medicare costs. The committee is considering a... Read more...
AHA backs off from $2T savings promise
Hey, wait a minute--did we say that? No, what we meant was that we're going to try really, really hard to save money--somehow. That was the message American Hospital Association was offering... Read more...
American Hospital Association wants tougher reviews of health-plan mergers
The American Hospital Association--and the AMA, for that matter--isn't too happy with the rate of health plan mergers taking place in the country in recent years. Fighting such mergers hasn't been... Read more...
Healthcare players offer plan to cut costs by $2 trillion
This week the country's power players in the health plan, hospital, physician and union world--among others--have come together to propose what could turn out to be an astonishing change. The groups... Read more...
Hospital job growth flattens
In an economy like this, even the brightest possible spots end up dulling. That's the case with hospital job growth, which until recently had been one of the few areas of the economy that continued... Read more...
