News
Navvis to be sold to Healthways for $28.7 million -- August 24, 2011
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2011/08/24/navvis-to-be-sold-to-healthways.html
Obama OK with bill offering states flexibility on reform -- March 1, 2011
Add Healthcare Policy to Medical School Curriculum, Doctors Say -- February 28, 2011
Digital Patient Data Holds Promise and Problems -- February 26, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/business/27unboxed.html?_r=1&ref=healthcarereform
HHS announces $200M in state grants to fight health insurance premium hi -- February 25, 2011
New Report Details Affordable Care Act Resources & Flexibility for State -- February 25, 2011
Top 50 Hospitals Named for 2011 -- February 23, 2011
http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/top-50-hosptials-named-2011
Judge tosses lawsuit against Obama health care plan -- February 22, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022205890.html
Community moves to integrate doctors -- September 15, 2010
Long before the new health reform law passed, Bryan Mills, CEO of Community Health Network, declared the hospital chain would turn itself into an accountable care organization by integrating with physicians.
Now that such an idea is codified in law, it’s only fueling Mills’ mission.
Community Health now has about 550 physicians, either on its payroll or committed through integration contracts, who have some of their pay hinge on measures of quality and communication.
Community had a head start on other local hospital systems because it kept the primary-care physician practices it acquired in the 1990s, when the managed care concept (a forerunner of accountable care) was all the rage. Today, those practices employ 200 physicians.
http://www.ibj.com/community-charges-ahead-with-doc-integration/PARAMS/article/22269
Rural hospitals take unique approach to health care for the poor -- September 15, 2010
Bemidji, Minn. — Even rural hospitals that chose not to enroll in the scaled back GAMC program will lose millions of dollars this year providing charity care for the state's poorest adults. That's because those hospitals are no longer reimbursed.
A growing number of hospitals are taking unusual steps to cut their losses and still provide care for the poorest of the poor.
Tri-County Hospital in Wadena projected it would lose about $850,000 each year providing health care no longer covered by GAMC. This summer, the hospital began an experiment.
Working through Wadena County, the hospital started paying insurance premiums so that about 100 GAMC patients could shift over to the more comprehensive MinnesotaCare insurance program.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/09/15/gamc-rural/
