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Two labor unions in California are formalizing what has been a longstanding informal relationship. The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and the California Nurses Association (CNA) announced last week a legal affiliation that is for now a strategic alliance rather than a merger.
In a recent analysis of nationally representative data published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication, significant improvement in the delivery of underused care was shown; however, the overuse of ambulatory healthcare services hardly changed between the years of 1998 and 2009.
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has designated Booz Allen Hamilton as a Common Security Framework (CSF) Assessor.
Under the two-month patch approved by the House and Senate on January 1 to avert the "fiscal cliff" Congress has permanently cut more than $1.4 billion in funding that was earmarked to help consumer operated and oriented (CO-OP) health plans become established in all 50 states.
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 became law on Jan. 2. Among its many provisions, the law postpones a scheduled 26.5 percent payment cut for physicians and other practitioners who treat Medicare patients, but payments to physicians may be temporarily held.
Even thought the recent fiscal cliff compromise brokered in the Senate will only patch two months, the legislation has permanently cut more than $1.4 billion in funding that was earmarked to help consumer operated and oriented (CO-OP) health plans become established in all 50 states.
If one person could be credited with first conceptualizing and promoting the idea of health insurance exchanges, it's probably Alain Enthoven, an 82-year-old economist and retired Stanford University business professor.
The healthcare industry continued to grow, adding 45,000 jobs to the nation's economy in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday.
A nurses' union in California is celebrating what it calls a first-in-the-nation workplace safety benefit in its new agreement with Centinela Hospital.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded $1.9 million to fund five regional and one national telehealth resource center.