hospitals

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  Strange

  By Richard Hoe  |  April 4, 2013

  Reform doesn't always use common sense.

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  Hospital tax may pay for Ariz. PPACA Medicaid expansion

  By Bob Christie  |  January 21, 2013

  Jan Brewer is the first governor who has unveiled an expansion funding proposal.

• Docs working less as flood of new patients looms

  By Staff Writer  |  October 12, 2012

  Millions of newly insured patients are expected to seek medical care in a few months, when PPACA goes into full effect. Trouble is, they might have a hard time finding it.

• Medicare rolls out carrots and sticks for hospital quality

  By Staff Writer  |  October 2, 2012

  Starting this week, some Medicare funds will be withheld and then re-doled out to hospitals based on caliber of performance.

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  Tenet Underpayments and Overpayments Yield Settlements with HHS, DOJ

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  April 12, 2012

  One settlement yields $84 million to Tenet, the other results in a payment of $42.75 million to the government.

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  Hospitals: Raise Medicare eligibility age

  By Staff Writer  |  October 4, 2011

  Fearing that the deficit reduction super committee may decide to cut their payments in its effort to reduce the Medicare budget, hospitals are lobbying for an increase in the eligibility age for Medicare.