April 2018

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Infection Rates Down
Providers are making progress on reducing healthcare-associated infections

LIS and the Physician Office Lab
Wholly MACRA!

Contracting Executive Profile
Justin Freed, Regional vice president of supply chain, California/Texas, Providence St. Joseph Health, Renton, Washington

What if the United States had the best healthcare and nobody showed up?
What happens when care becomes cost-prohibitive?

Cracking the Code
Bundled-payment programs are alive and well. The proof is a brand new program – Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced – which was introduced in January by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

In the Dark
State Medicaid agencies fail to report critical information about assisted living services

High-tech Home Care

Surgical Wound Monitoring from Home

Aging Population, Hospital Partnerships to Drive SNF Patient Growth

Health news and notes

WINDSHIELD TIME

QUICK BYTES

RepCorner: Sarah Alasya

Congress Tackles Vital Public Health Legislation

Industry news