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Controversial proposal by the Health and Human Services Department drew letters from 4,000 organizations, individuals in 20-day comment period.
Shortened open enrollment period in final rule to increase consumer choice and encourage stability in health insurance market for 2018.
Issues include dirty supply storage areas, canceled procedures due to supply shortages, use of expired equipment on patients, report says.
Study found that the combined impact of all three programs netted $32 million in cost savings in 2015.
Providers, researchers, hospital leaders are expected to use the reports to help raise awareness on health disparities, develop interventions.
Agency launches new website that allows veterans to find and compare care quality at clinics in the area, while viewing real-time data on wait times.
Without the cost-sharing reduction payments that allow insurers to lower deductibles, premiums in silver plans could jump by 19 percent, study says.
Tool allows purchasers to estimate the number of avoidable deaths among covered lives, related financial details.
Aurora said Wednesday the project will produce numerous construction jobs, expand Aurora's local healthcare workforce.
The 14-bed hospital serves all of Butte County, whose population of 2,501is spread over territory half the size of Connecticut.