Accentuating the positive, CMS releases the latest results from its Medicare Accountable Care Organization program.
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A report by the agency responsible for overseeing construction of VA health facilities finds rampant mismanagement and cost overruns, with the most glaring example being a Colorado medical center expected to cost triple the original projections, and it still isn't completed. Still think government is good at this stuff?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-faults-va-management-denver-hospital-failures-33521448A paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines health spending over the last few decades, including recent years and potential trends.
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An Altarum Institute Presentation focuses on whether limits on Medicare reimbursement are sustainable and impacts of that reimbursement on other payers.
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Back to the PE world, as EDG Partners is providing financing to allow newly-formed PWNHealth to buy a lab services authorization division from Medivo, which offers data analytics for clinical labs.
https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/edg-partners-supports-pwnhealths-buy-of-lab-services-platform-from-medivo/Time to check in on Massachusetts, the trend-setter for eventual federal health reform. Things aren't going so good on the spending side.
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