Diana Manos
WASHINGTON – Congress has introduced a bipartisan proposal to expand and streamline the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Under the Healthy Kids Act of 2007, sp...
WASHINGTON – The government should do a better job of providing oversight of state Medicaid finances, according to a March report issued by the General Accountability Office. The 54-p...
Despite polls ranking the healthcare crisis second only to the Iraq War as a concern for voters, few presidential candidates have emerged as champions of healthcare reform....
Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) outlined last Thursday steps for what she says will cut runaway healthcare spending by one third. In a speech last Thursday at...
What does it take to successfully build a regional health information organization? It takes flexibility, with privacy and sustainability as key issues near the top of th...
According to a senior policy advisor for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), this year's top Democrat healthcare agenda includes "major" expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Pr...
The nation's federal healthcare IT czar, Robert Kolodner, MD, said today that the government's entire focus for healthcare IT advancement is to improve care. Kolodner, pro...
Despite recent survey findings that show 80 percent of the 24 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D are satisfied with the program, the Senate Finance Committee has concerns that vulnerable low-...
Pay for performance is not a trial program, as far as the federal government is concerned. According to the head of the federal P4P, Thomas Valuck, MD, director of t...
The number of companies participating in President Bush's plan for value-driven healthcare has skyrocketed from 175 in January to more than 775. Department of Health and Huma...