Richard Pizzi

A new report from the nonprofit California HealthCare Foundation focuses on the concept of a national health insurance exchange and examines whether California's experience can inform the national debate.

Healthcare reform proposals now circulating on Capitol Hill are full of provisions that will change U.S. tax law, according to a special tax report by the auditing and accounting firm CCH.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Catholic Medical Center, both in Manchester, N.H., have filed an affiliation agreement with the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office.

A new issue brief from the Economic Policy Institute claims that small business will be one of the primary beneficiaries of the healthcare reform plan passed by the House.

Nurses are putting in more hours at work than at this time last year but expect to return to pre-recession work levels once the economy rebounds, according to a recent survey.

The non-profit California HealthCare Foundation has issued three new reports addressing the impact of overcrowding in California's emergency rooms.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has announced a $220 million competition to fund projects that prepare workers for careers in healthcare and other high-growth industries.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and the Democratic-controlled state legislature have finally worked out a deal to fix the state's gargantuan $26.3 billion budget deficit. But "fix" may not be the appropriate word, given the suffering that will result from the agreement, if implemented as planned.

St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading, Pa., has selected a vendor to manage the medical billing processes for its physician network.

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named a new Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for Jurisdiction 7, which includes Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.