Diana Manos
America's Health Insurance Plans has released a national strategy to advance improvement in U.S. healthcare quality and safety. The strategy, revealed in a 16-pa...
The U.S. Senate has voted against a bill proposing to allow the federal government to negotiate for lower Medicare drug prices. The vote comes as a disappoi...
The majority of state Medicaid programs are using some form of pay-for-performance model or are considering implementing one, according to a new report released by the Commonwealth Fund and IPRO....
A group of Democrats and various supporters are leading the push for a law that would allow government officials to negotiate for lower Medicare drug prices. According to Sen...
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. recently announced that it will partner with the University of Arkansas and Blue Cross Blue Shield to conduct research on how to advance healthcare IT in the U.S....
Information on how doctors will be measured for quality performance under the voluntary 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) has been announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid S...
President Bush is not the only one pressing for more information to be available to healthcare consumers. According to Adam Bosworth, vice president of Google, the private in...
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – Maccabi Healthcare Services, a leading Israeli HMO, has announced that it has been selected to help build a new national healthcare information technology system for Bulgaria,...
WASHINGTON – Employers who want to contain healthcare costs should consider implementing innovative benefit designs, said a recent study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change...
WASHINGTON – At one of the many briefings, Congressional hearings and non-profit forums held last month in Washington D.C. on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Sen. Ja...