Chelsey Ledue
More than 3,500 hospice providers from across the country have sent letters urging President Barack Obama to stop cuts to the Medicare hospice benefit beginning on Oct. 1, 2009.
Primary care physicians are in greater demand than any other type of doctor, according to a recent report by national physician search firm Merritt Hawkins & Associates, an AMN Healthcare company.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released a new report, "Hidden Costs of Health Care: Why Americans are Paying More but Getting Less," which documents the rising cost of deductibles, co-payments and out-of-pocket expenses that are making it more difficult for families with insurance to receive healthcare.
MinuteClinic, billed as the largest provider of retail healthcare in the United States, has become a participating provider in all insurance plans offered by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Increases in physicians’ overall compensation in both primary and specialty care did not keep up with inflation in 2008, according to a new survey by the Medical Group Management Association.
The Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative and five of the nation’s largest health insurers have launched an expansive medical home pilot project.
A quarter of Americans say they have had difficulty paying for healthcare in the past 12 months, with Baby Boomers and Generation X leading the way, according to a study by Thomson Reuters.
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has received $6 billion in new federal funding for fiscal year 2009.
The Community Oncology Alliance, a nonprofit group of medical practitioners who deliver cancer care across the country, is working with Congress on the Quality Cancer Care Demonstration (QCCD) project, the "architecture of a solution to today's cancer care crisis."
The Department of Veterans' Affairs, which has nearly 8 million veterans enrolled in its healthcare system, will welcome nearly 266,000 more veterans into its medical centers and clinics across the country.