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The Commonwealth Fund has launched a new Web site that allows healthcare providers to compare 4,500 hospitals nationwide, track performance over time against numerous benchmarks and download tools...
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, Congress and industry advisors are working to map out an economic stimulus package that will include some funding for healthcare and healthcare IT, acco...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week released quality ratings for each of the nation's 15,800 nursing homes that participate in Medicare or Medicaid.For the first time i...
The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System's Faculty Practice will participate in three pay-for-performance (P4P) agreements that will provide financial incentives and support of up to $3.6 mill...
In the ongoing debate over healthcare reform, which seems to be increasing in intensity as America awaits the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Cha...
In response to recent reductions in service payments from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston Medical Center is cutting $61.5 million from its budget.The magnitude of the reduced payments...
The American College of Physicians, a national organization of 126,000 internal medicine physicians, has called on Health and Human Services Secretary-designee Tom Daschle to provide physicians with m...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched its fourth annual healthcare provider satisfaction survey of Medicare fee-for-service contractors who process and pay more than $280 billi...
Independence Blue Cross will extend its support for the Partnership for Patient Care, a quality and patient safety effort led by southeastern Pennsylvania hospitals, with $3 million in funding through...
The California HealthCare Foundation's annual publication, California's Uninsured, 2008, shows that over the past 20 years, the percent of uninsured Californians under age 65 has continued to r...