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Register today for the 2015 Fall Forum being held November 12-13, 2015 at The Bellagio in Las Vegas. Click here to visit the conference website.
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Health IT Analytics
The Medicare Pioneer Accountable Care Organization program has had its ups and downs during its first three years of life, as intrepid healthcare organizations lead the rest of the industry towards value-based reimbursement and data-driven, coordinated care.
A handful of early participants have dropped out along the way, citing poor financial return for their herculean efforts to meet stringent quality benchmarks.
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Becker's Hospital Review
CMS’ Medicare accountable care organizations, designed to trim the fat from healthcare programs with quality and cost incentives, may actually cost Medicare more money than they save, according to a recent report from Kaiser Health News.
Here are five key takeaways from the report.
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The Wall Street Journal
Five years after the Affordable Care Act helped set off a healthcare merger frenzy, the pace of consolidation is accelerating, transforming the medical marketplace into a land of giants.
The trend is under a new spotlight now, as Congress zeroes in on the competitive and cost impact of proposed deals that would collapse the health-insurance industry’s top five players into just three massive companies, each with more than $100 billion in annual revenue.
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Yahoo Health
The latest census data released shows that the percentage of people without health insurance was 10.4 percent lower than the number of uninsured in 2013.
While 41.8 million, or 13.3 percent of Americans, were without health insurance in 2013, that number dropped to 33 million — 10.4 percent of Americans — in 2014.
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U.S. News & World Report
The Obama administration took steps to prevent consumers who are married or have children from paying double that of single people in out-of-pocket medical costs.
Under the rule, which was clarified in a letter sent to groups representing employers, a consumer who purchases a family health insurance plan will have an out-of-pocket cost of $6,850 for themselves or for a single family member – the same amount as someone with individual coverage.
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LiveScience
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should avoid using words like "breakthrough" and "promising" to describe new drugs when making announcements aimed at the public, some researchers argue.
These researchers contend that the general public may not understand the FDA's usage of these words.
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NBC News
ZMapp, an experimental drug being tested against Ebola, has won fast-track status to get quicker Food and Drug Administration approval.
The drug, which made headlines when some high-profile American Ebola patients tried it out, is still being tested in Liberia, where there haven't been any cases of Ebola in months, as well as in Sierra Leone and Guinea.
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Phys.org
For evolutionary biologists, the best experiments are those already going on in nature. The different conditions in which humans have lived for tens of thousands of years have made us adapt and change. Now a new study published in Science shows that such adaptation has led to genetic mutations in Greenlandic Inuits that help them counteract the bad effects of their high-fat diet, based heavily on fish and marine mammals.
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HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report
Black women are more likely to develop aggressive forms of breast cancer than white women because of genetic differences in the tumors, a new study suggests.
The finding that genetic characteristics of more aggressive tumors may be more prevalent among black women could help explain racial differences in survival rates. The researchers said their findings could help scientists develop more targeted treatments for the disease.
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The Wall Street Journal
Scientists have discovered a way by which genes from one species can jump directly into another species — nature’s way of creating genetically modified organisms.
The finding is relevant to the debate over genetically modified foods. Opponents have frequently maintained that an interspecies gene transfer done in a laboratory — the insertion of a bacterial gene into corn to make it insect-resistant, for example — would never occur naturally and is therefore unethical and potentially unsafe.
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By Dorothy L. Tengler
 Smog in urban areas has long been a health concern because of the problems it can cause for our lungs. As it turns out, tiny pollution particles in the air can lead to big problems for our hearts as well. Now, in what is believed to be the largest, most detailed study of its kind in the United States, scientists have confirmed that chemical particles in the air we breathe are linked to an overall increase in risk of death as they can aggravate or increase the process of disease in the arteries.
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Medscape
Lifestyle factors and genetic susceptibility can interact synergistically to elevate the risk for age-related macular degeneration in women, according to two new analyses of the Carotenoids in Age-Related Eye Disease Study. The analyses were published in Ophthalmology and published online in JAMA Ophthalmology.
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U.S. News & World Report
By the time you've finished reading this article, another woman in the U.S. will learn she has breast cancer. A diagnosis happens more than a quarter of a million times each year, and in her lifetime, a woman has a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer in some form.
No doubt, a breast cancer diagnosis is scary.
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TechCrunch
The proliferation of electronic medical records has left much to be desired. Though designed with care improvement and data exchange in mind, the necessary connective tissue layer is absent. Healthcare providers are still resorting to the phone and fax to communicate, and patients are still carrying their personal health information from one appointment to the next, or relying on memory.
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CNN
When Michael Kamins opened the letter from his insurer, he was enraged.
His 20-year old son recently had been hospitalized twice with bipolar disorder and rescued from the brink of suicide, he said. Now, the insurer said he had improved and it was no longer medically necessary for the young man to see his psychiatrist two times a week. The company would pay for two visits per month.
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