Chelsey Ledue

Small business owners and employees stand to benefit the most from current health reform proposals under consideration by Congress, according to a recent Commonwealth Fund report.

Almost 75 percent of physicians accepted all or most new Medicare patients last year, according to the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) 2008 Health Tracking Physician Survey.

Thirteen states have been awarded $70.9 million by the Department of Health and Human Services to support the expansion of healthcare coverage for uninsured residents.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius traveled to Maine Thursday to formally release a new report on the importance of health insurance reform for older women.

Up to six one-year grants, worth $500,000 each, will be made to organizations successfully proposing programs that directly benefit older adults.

American pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. have agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle criminal and civil liability from marketing fraud.

The National Community Pharmacists Association is urging Congress to preserve Medicaid patients’ access to approximately 23,000 community pharmacies.

Mercy Memorial Hospital System of Monroe, Mich., ProMedica Health System of Toledo, Ohio, and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center in Detroit have announced a joint venture to bring "state-of-the-science" cancer care to Monroe and the surrounding communities.

While the Chicago medical community is more consolidated than most large cities, the physician segment is likely to contract even more in the future, reports HealthLeaders-InterStudy.

Social networking sites are usually taboo in the workplace, but the launch of Delta-Exchange could encourage their use in the physician’s office.