The state House was just three votes short of overriding the governor's veto, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Kansas, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Two executives—Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, and Robert Pearl, CEO of The Permanente Medical Group—recently became patients themselves, and although both penned praise of their physicians and caregivers, one also offered some difficult reflections on the frustrations of being a patient.
CMS in a final notice rule says it will slow the planned phase-in of encounter data used to set Medicare Advantage payments, lowering the threshold for encounter data to 15 percent in 2018.
Moody's Investors Service projects that for-profit hospitals in the United States will see earnings increases in the low-single digits throughout the next 12 to 18 months.
White House officials in separate meetings with members of the moderate Tuesday Group and conservative House Freedom Caucus discussed changing Affordable Care Act provisions on hospitalization coverage, not charging sick patients more for insurance, and others.
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