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10/23/2019 - Modern Healthcare by: Michael Brady
WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan pair of senators on Tuesday introduced a bill to fix the so-called "rural glitch" in the CMS' reimbursement formula for accountable care organizations and potentially increase reimbursement rates for ACO providers under the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

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10/23/2019 - The Washington Post by: ari Horwitz, Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein
CLEVELAND, OH - Two Ohio counties settled with four drug companies on the eve of a landmark federal trial over responsibility for the opioid epidemic, in a $260 million deal that emerged just an hour before opening arguments were set to begin Monday.

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10/23/2019 - Modern Healthcare by: Tara Bannow
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is demanding two health systems and five health insurers hand over a considerable collection of information covering years of patient billing information, quality data and employee wages.

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10/23/2019 - MetroNews
HUNTINGTON, WV - A Huntington lawyer representing scores of communities, including Cabell County, in challenging opioid manufacturers says he wants “a reckoning” for the drug crisis affecting his community and others across the country.

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10/22/2019 - Modern Healthcare by: Steven Ross Johnson
WASHINGTON, DC - Low-income urban communities are seeing much higher rates of pharmacy closures than other areas, which researchers worry will widen socio-economic health disparities.

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10/22/2019 - West Virginia Record by: Carrie Bradon
HUNTINGTON, WV - An Ohio woman is suing a physical therapist and a Cabell County hospital over allegations that an unprofessional relationship resulted in personal injuries.

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10/22/2019 - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, DC - The nation's three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker reached an 11th-hour, $260 million settlement over the toll of the opioids in two Ohio counties, averting what would have been the first federal trial over the crisis.

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