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Connecticut passes law to curb hospital sale-leaseback deals, favored by private equity firms. Passage comes a year after Prospect Medical Holdings, an investor-backed health system, fell into bankruptcy as investors extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from its hospitals.

Connecticut passes law to curb hospital sale-leaseback deals, favored by private equity firms Senate Bill 196 was signed into law by Gov. Ned Lamont a year after the state saw Prospect Medical Holdings, an investor-backed health system, fall into bankruptcy as investors extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from its hospitals.

Supporters, detractors and impartial observers were quick to register their stance on the new Medicaid work requirements. Here’s a sampling.

What stakeholders are saying about Medicaid’s new work requirements: 10 notable quotes Starting next New Year’s Day, many Medicaid beneficiaries will need to show they’re working at least 80 hours per month in order to continue qualifying for the means-tested public assistance.

Newsmakers: The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) … UC-Riverside computer scientists … Ami Bhatt, MD, more …

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UnitedHealthcare accused of defrauding Massachusetts Medicaid program of $100M. It’s alleged in a lawsuit that diagnoses like “anxiety” and “depression” were used to boost risk-adjusted payments. The company denies the allegations.

UnitedHealthcare accused of defrauding Medicaid program of $100M It’s alleged in a lawsuit that the insurer manipulated patient diagnoses to receive higher risk-adjusted payments from MassHealth, the Medicaid program in Massachusetts. Patients with “depression” and “anxiety” were said to be labeled alongside those with more serious behavioral health iss...

Video: AMGA says it has the policy solutions ready and is urging Congress to act now before practices are forced to make irreversible decisions.

AMGA lists six pillars to improve the US healthcare system AMGA says it has the policy solutions ready and is urging Congress to act now before more practices are forced to make irreversible decisions.