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The bundled payment episode definitions in previous Medicare bundled payment initiatives such as the Medicare Participating Heart Bypass Demonstration and the Medicare Acute Care Episode Demonstration included only services provided during the inpatient stay. As inpatients, these patients are closely…

Boston-based health insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health Care cut its premium rate increase to 1.9 percent after the Massachusetts Division of Insurance previously approved a 3.8 percent rate hike, according to a Boston Globe report.

Rhode Island hospitals lost nearly $4 million in 2011, the first time the state's hospitals recorded a negative cumulative operating margin, according to a Rhode Island Public Radio report.

Two retiring executives at Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System — CFO John Fletcher and Vice President of Operations Beverly Ranzenberger — will earn lump sum retirement payments of more than $1 million each, according to a Monterey County Herald…

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