Advocate Aurora Health would take on more risk and move more quickly to implement a “truly value-based healthcare system” if certain changes were made to the Stark Law, Chief Integration Officer Mike Lappin testified this week at a U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing.
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The state cited 36 nursing homes for violations during the second quarter of the year, issuing nearly $1 million in fines.
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Bruce Johnson has resigned as president and CEO of the Illinois Primary Health Care Association following “insensitive comments” he made to Aunt Martha’s CEO Raul Garza during a June 20 meeting.
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Illinois Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, as well as eight Illinois U.S. Representatives, sent a letter last week to Gov. Bruce Rauner urging him to address racial disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes.
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The state’s updated hospital assessment program, which went into effect this month, could produce winners and losers among the more than 200 participating hospitals.
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