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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

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In this case, the government moved to protect the public because a subset of meat packers was putting profit above public health. public outcry caused the government to step in and regulate the industry. It’s there to protect us from evildoers. After The Jungle was published. Sometimes they were not.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

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Here goes: the front-loading of the DSRIP program caused dollars to go to PPS sponsors for setting up the program and for checking boxes (literally – “we had a meeting with so-and-so”) to satisfy reporting requirements and subsequent payments. Investments in Social Determinant of Health Networks (SDHNs) Development and Performance.

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Building the Future through CMS eHealth

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Physicians, hospitals, and health care providers across the country are rushing to adopt new hardware, new software, and new workflow processes that make all of these initiatives possible. Health IT vendors are working hard to build the kind of technology that will realize true electronic interoperability.

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