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The American Medical Association (AMA) launched on Monday a multi-year, multi-million dollar effort to improve health outcomes for those with cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes and to prevent it in those who may be at risk.
A growing number of small businesses are turning to bartering to get healthcare services they otherwise couldn't afford. It's a strategy that also offers benefits for the healthcare businesses providing the services.
A study by Kaiser Permanente of the medical records of 8,454 women, ages 55 years or older shows that nearly 30 percent of women failed to pick up their bisphosphonate prescriptions, a medication that is most commonly used to treat osteoporosis and similar bone diseases.
Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), along with the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), unveiled on April 19 a bipartisan plan to strengthen and improve nation's drug distribution supply chain.
As Arkansas prepares to implement its plan to expand Medicaid to those up to 138 percent of FPL via private plans on the state HIX, it still leaves many policy and cost questions unanswered.
According to research done by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and published in the May issue of Medical Care, magnet hospitals have both lower patient mortality rates and better patient outcomes, due in part to more investments in nursing at these organizations.
Supporters of a proposed rule to change the companion exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act pressured the Obama administration last week to make a final ruling.
Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe has signed a new law expanding Medicaid eligibility through the state's federal-partnership health insurance exchange -- one of the most unusual evolutions in Affordable Care Act policy, if also one HHS hopes will bring insurance to some 250,000 working class Arkansans who otherwise might continue to go uncovered amid the politics of Mediciad expansion.
The Bipartisan Policy Center on Thursday released what it hopes will be "a viable political plan to reign in the spiraling costs" of healthcare while also improving quality.
University Hospitals, a healthcare system in northeast Ohio, has joined up with three smaller health systems in the state to create a new purchasing collaborative to save money on supplies and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivery.