Rene Letourneau
During the Republican debate last Thursday, Mitt Romney defended the individual mandate in Massachusetts, which he signed into law as governor in 2006, while arguing against a similar mandate at the national level.
Healthcare cost variations create $36 billion in annual waste, which could be better controlled with increased pricing transparency, according to a new white paper from Thomson Reuters.
Hospitals and health systems can reap significant short- and long-term benefits by proactively addressing their real estate strategies as part of the mergers and acquisitions process, says financial services firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
January was a record month for healthcare merger and acquisition activity with 95 deals worth a combined total of $17.2 billion being transacted, according to a recent report from Irving Levin Associates.
Ten healthcare programs were awarded for their charitable community service at the Hospital Charitable Service Conference in Atlanta on Monday.
The Food and Drug Administration today announced the steps it is taking to end the shortage of two important cancer drugs.
S&P Indices announced Thursday the results of its S&P Economic Healthcare Indices for the year ending December 2011, finding that healthcare costs as measured by annual rates of change went up across the board in the last month of the year.
Fifty-seven percent of private health plan payers are hesitant to accelerate the adoption of bundled payment without positive provider feedback, according to a recent poll from healthcare IT and research firm Gantry Group, LLC.
The main factors contributing to regional differences in private healthcare spending are health status and hospital prices, says a new report released today from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) for the nonpartisan, nonprofit National Institute for Health Care Reform (NIHCR).
As the FDA issued draft guidance on biosimilar product development, a new report finds the global market for biosimilars is forecast to reach $4.8 billion by the year 2015.