Morning Headlines 12/29/16
Readmission Rates After Passage of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: A Pre–Post Analysis
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine measuring readmission rates before and after ACA’s Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program went into effect, finds a reduction of 60 to 90 readmissions per 10,000 discharges.
Abbott gets FTC approval for $25 billion St. Jude deal
Abbott Laboratories wins FTC approval to acquire medical device manufacturer St. Jude for $25 billion, under the condition that the two companies divest their cardiac device business units.
Value-based insurance coming to millions of people in Tricare
The recently-signed Defense Spending Bill includes a mandate to test value-based reimbursement initiatives stemming from the DoD’s Tricare insurance program.
Trump Picks Thomas Bossert as Top Counterterrorism Adviser
President-elect Donald Trump names cybersecurity expert Tom Bossert as his homeland security advisor.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.