Chelsey Ledue
Patient outcomes at each of the nation’s 5,000 non-federal hospitals indicate a wide gap in quality between the best hospitals and all others.
With 90,000 pharmaceutical sales representatives nationally and ad campaigns, the pharmaceutical industry enjoys returns as high as $10 for every dollar invested in marketing efforts, but it is questionable as to whether they really improve patients health or drive up the costs.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is awarding $1 million in grants to free clinics throughout the state to provide health services to individuals and families without health insurance.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has called on states and communities to help find and enroll the 5 million currently uninsured children eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
The United State's largest nursing home pharmacy will pay $98 million to settle allegations that the company ran kickback schemes, according to the Justice Department.
Experts polled in the latest Healthcare Opinion Leaders survey, conducted by the Commonwealth Fund and Modern Healthcare, favor sweeping changes to Medicare to help control program costs and support broader health system reform.
Highly publicized vaccine products not only boost the bottom lines of pharmaceutical companies, but also benefit insurance companies, doctors and retailers, according to an analysis of the flu vaccine season by Kalorama Information.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced a 2 percent market basket update to Medicare's calendar year 2010 home health prospective payment system rates and modifications to the home health outlier policy.
Most hospitals will receive in 2010 an inflation update of 2.1 percent in their payment rates for services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries in outpatient departments, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Health insurance reform will bring down costs for small businesses by creating a health insurance exchange, providing a small business tax credit and ending the “hidden tax” on small businesses that provide health insurance, according to a recent report.