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Hospitals and health systems may have some opportunities ahead to improve their results in Medicare Advantage.

Also, this week’s Weird Number: $3.8 billion. That's the total drop in Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule Medicare payments from 2018 to 2020, according to estimates from the American Clinical Lab Association.

One More Thing: One driver of the proliferation of hospital price cap laws in states is research on existing laws.

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