Diana Manos
WASHINGTON – Nearly one-third of American health consumers are intolerant of even the slightest inaccuracies in reporting physician performance ratings, a recent study found. Matthew Davi...
Congress has introduced a bipartisan proposal to expand and streamline State Children's Health Insurance Programs. Under the Healthy Kids Act of 2007, sponsored by Reps. Rahm Em...
SAN FRANCISCO – Practice Fusion, Inc., an electronic healthcare vendor launched last August, recently announced that it will make use of Google’s AdSense program to help sponsor free elect...
The federal government should do a better job of overseeing state Medicaid finances, according to a report issued Monday by the General Accountability Office. The 54-page GA...
Today there is hardly a more hotly debated topic than pay-for-performance, or P4P. And yet, despite all the brouhaha, it’s still only a distant speck on the horizon. In line with t...
WASHINGTON – A group of Democrats and other supporters are calling for a law that would allow government officials to negotiate for lower Medicare drug prices. According to Sen. D...
Physicians are not as likely as once thought to leave their practices due to spikes in malpractice premiums, according to a new Harvard study that counted procedures rather than polled physicians....
WASHINGTON - If Medicare is a good thing, then why not expand it? So say Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Rep. John Dingell (D-...
A real-time survey taken yesterday at a panel session of the Fourth Annual World Health Care Congress in the District of Columbia revealed that 69 percent of attendees feel the federal governmen...
Reps. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) and Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) have introduced a bipartisan bill designed to help physicians afford the high cost of adopting healthcare information technology....