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Hospitals
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For AHCJ members: Comparison tool for hospital Medicare charges
AHCJ just updated its version of Medicare inpatient charge data covering hospitals across the United States. The Centers for Medicare…
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What journalists should know about hospital ratings
Journalists should take hospital ratings with a healthy dose of skepticism, according to experts at a recent AHCJ New York…
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AHCJ update: Hospital mortality and readmission data now available
AHCJ just updated and simplified its version of the hospital mortality and readmission data available exclusively to members. Going back…
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Indiana project to reduce hospitalization of nursing home residents gets boost
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) thinks Indiana University may be on to something when it comes to…
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Using quality ratings in reporting on health care #AHCJ16
When I told a friend at Health Journalism 2016 that I would be attending and writing a short post on the…
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Conference session will explore the hidden costs of hospital consolidation #AHCJ16
Research from the Health Care Pricing Project shows that when hospitals have a monopoly in a market, prices are 15.3…
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Here’s some guidance on understanding the hospital consolidation trend
Hospitals have been merging and acquiring physician practices at a breakneck pace. They say it’s what they have to do…
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New data from three health insurers may be a game changer
Most of what policy makers know about health spending comes from Medicare data, which represents only about 16 percent of…
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AHCJ fellow tells how she examined hospital community benefit, post-ACA
Beth Kutscher, a Modern Healthcare reporter who recently become the publication’s California bureau chief, has covered health care finance for…
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Looking back at 2015 on Covering Health
Bacon, chocolate, vaccines and Mark Cuban: Those were the topics of some of the most-read Covering Health posts of 2015.…