Diana Manos
WASHINGTON – Congress used special methods late in December to approve a bill that would defer a 10.1 percent Medicare payment cut for physicians that was scheduled to take effect January 1....
WASHINGTON – Contrary to popular belief, healthcare spending over the next several decades will not be dominated by the coming retirement of the baby boomer generation, a new report from the Con...
Researchers at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) and the University of Memphis Center for Healthcare Technology have taken a lead from the military on an innovative way to explore how to boost nur...
Despite the criticism the federal government has taken on the fledgling Medicare prescription drug program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week that it anticipates smooth...
The federal government and other healthcare stakeholders are increasingly interested in what is called "patient-centered care" as a measure of quality of care. The two go hand-in-hand, industry and go...
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced today that more than 100 companies have voluntarily signed up to participate in the Administration's plan to advance healthc...
The federal government wants to find the incentive that will convince doctors to participate in its pay-for-performance programs. According to Thomas B. Valuck, MD,...
According to a new study commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, more than half of the nation's HMOs used pay-for-performance programs...
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Friday that a competitive healthcare market based on quality and cost savings to the consumer is the only way to change the U.S. healthcare sys...
Although government and industry officials have been touting the patient safety benefits of electronic health records, physician practices have been slow to adopt the technology – primarily beca...