Diana Manos
RECENT LEGISLATIVE activity on healthcare issues in Washington has focused heavily on oversight and disagreement over spending. It’s hard to say which came first....
The development of a new tool for measuring return on investment in hospital-based pay-for- performance (P4P) programs has been announced by the Leapfrog Group, HSM Group and Discern Consulting....
WASHINGTON– President Bush’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2008 calls for $70 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over five years. The $2.9 trilli...
The current Medicare physician payment formula is "fatally flawed" and should be replaced with one that better reflects the reality of practice cost increases, say doctors, congressional advisors, law...
Employers who want to contain healthcare costs should consider implementing innovative benefit designs, said a study released yesterday by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)....
A leading Israeli HMO specializing in healthcare value and quality systems announced Feb. 20 that it has been selected to help build a new national healthcare information technology infrastructure for...
At one of the many briefings, congressional hearings and non-profit forums held this month in Washington on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) spoke...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday plans for reporting physician performance to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS plans to make...
A newly formed consortium of U.S. businesses on Feb. 8 announced the release of a guide designed to help employers purchase healthcare that supports the Department of Health and Human Services' plan t...
President Bush's budget proposal for fiscal year 2008 released yesterday calls for $70 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over five years....