Chip Means
A new bill introduced in Pennsylvania's House would make the state pay medical students' loan debt for graduates who agree to practice medicine in the state for 10 years....
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission this week urged Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to adopt and refine various methodologies for determining provider reimbursements and...
Federal funding for a program to cover children lacking health insurance runs out in three months. Most states, even those experiencing funding shortfalls, are looking at various methods of expanding...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill introduced shortly before the start of National Nurses Week in May would protect nurses from working mandatory overtime hours, one of the the more controversial me...
TEMPLE, TX – The effects of the nursing shortage on outpatient centers are similar to those on hospitals, but clinics are at a disadvantage as they compete for the same nursing supply with hospi...
Charitable giving has taken a significant downturn for the nation's charity hospitals, as donations of at least $1 million to not-for-profit facilities in the first three months of 2007 are down 35 pe...
NEW ORLEANS – Demolished hospital facilities, an exodus of healthcare workers and a skyrocketing number of people requiring urgent care are part of the legacy of havoc that Hurricane Katrina dro...
WASHINGTON – A bleak report on the long-term financial health of Medicare issued by the program’s federal trustees signals a pending collapse of the payment structure used to reimburse phy...
Nearly every state has a Medicaid estate recovery program to recoup some of the costs of deceased patients’ long-term care. However, most recipients and their families don’t know such...
BOSTON – The inability of pay-for-performance programs to effectively motivate physician quality improvement efforts may be the result of designs that are too generic and stingy. But even...