Diana Manos
With the nation's capital preparing for Tuesday’s inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, Congress has been busy pushing healthcare to the front of issues the new president will face on his first day in office.
The House passed a bill Wednesday to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), with the Senate scheduled to mark up a bill sometime Thursday.
The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released the long-awaited ICD-10 code set and set a new compliance date of Oct. 1, 2013.
CIGNA's Choice Fund account-based consumer-driven health plans reduced medical costs by 13 percent relative to HMO and PPO plans, according to a study released today by the insurer.The multi-...
Families USA, the national organization for healthcare consumers, released a report Friday that shows temporary healthcare premiums for the recently unemployed consume some 84 percent of their unemplo...
In a major speech Thursday, likened to those given on the campaign trail, President-elect Barack Obama outlined his plans for an economic recovery package he hopes to begin moving through Congress as...
The federal government is inching closer to value-based healthcare, a proposition that has been heavily endorsed by the Bush Administration and promoted by the incoming Obama Administration.T...
National health spending in 2007 was at its lowest rate of overall growth since 1998, according to a new report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS researchers said slo...
The AMERIGROUP Corporation announced Wednesday that it has terminated its agreement to purchase a New Jersey Medicaid plan from the University Health Plan, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centene C...
One in five adults ages 45 and older are suffering from health problems due to financial stress, according to a recent AARP survey."Right now people are increasingly concerned about thei...