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The cost-saving potential of specialty or disease-specific ACOs can be huge...but it is unclear whether these specialty services are more efficiently provided through their own ACO or as ancillary to the burgeoning primary care ACO marketplace.

As a side effect of national sequester cuts, many cancer clinics have been forced to turn away Medicare patients.

Could two years really have made the difference? While some healthcare reforms proposals have called for raising Medicare eligibility from age 65 to 67 to address cost concerns associated with the Affordable Care Act, President Obama has made it clear that he would not consider increasing the age limit as a way to aid the national deficit.

For the second time in 6 months, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials have revised readmission penalties for hospitals. In doing so, approximately 1200 hospitals are now subject to lesser penalties.