Richard Pizzi
The city of Tulsa, Okla., has selected Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma to be its health insurance provider, effective July 1, 2009.
Most Americans don't support an "individual mandate" for health insurance, although they do support a "shared-responsibility" plan that combines an individual mandate with expanded roles for employers, government and insurers.
Park Nicollet Health Services, an integrated care system in the Minneapolis area, is cutting 233 jobs, the second big round of layoffs in less than five months.
In an announcement becoming all too familiar in Pennsylvania, the Reading Hospital health system plans to reduce its total workforce of 6,400 by 250 positions, or 3.9 percent.
Proposed cuts in Medicaid spending at Florida hospitals would hurt struggling local economies, costing thousands of high-wage jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in related economic activity annually, according to a study released last week by the Florida Hospital Association.
Overall hospital prices increased 0.1 percent in March and were 2.1 percent higher than a year ago, according to a federal Bureau of Labor Statistics report this week.
Over-the-counter medicine use saves American consumers more than $20 billion per year in both direct and indirect costs, which bodes well for the Rx-to-OTC market, says a new report.
The American Hospital Association says the national average fee-for-service growth rate for Medicare Advantage plans in 2010 has raised additional concerns that the fiscal year 2010 inpatient prospective payment system update could be very small.
Advanced Radiologic Physicians of Bowling Green, Ohio, has hired a new practice management and billing services firm.
The National Institutes of Health is promoting a new funding opportunity under the Recovery Act that will support approximately $200 million in large-scale projects in biomedical research and development, public health and healthcare delivery.