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By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | November 14, 2008
U.S. Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, is asking Congress to consider state Medicaid funding in its new economic stimulus package."I am pl...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 14, 2008
The Pennsylvania Department of Aging has urged older Pennsylvanians and other Medicare beneficiaries to attend local enrollment meetings designed to help them choose a federal Medicare Part D prescrip...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | November 13, 2008
Compared to patients in seven other countries, chronically ill adults in the United States are far more likely to forgo care because of costs, according to a new survey conducted by the Commonwealth F...
By Jeff Marion | 12:00 am | November 13, 2008
The initial financial impact of Medicare's new Value-based Purchasing initiative will be relatively small for U.S. hospitals in regard to hospital-acquired conditions, according to new research....
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 13, 2008
New York University Langone Medical Center has received two gifts totaling $260 million to support a major expansion of the NYU hospital and medical school campus.Helen L. Kimmel, a long-time...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | November 13, 2008
With 69 days until President-elect Barack Obama takes office, Congressional leaders are gearing up to make sure healthcare reform doesn't slip through the cracks this time.Sen. Max Baucus (D-...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 13, 2008
University of Texas System regents have ordered layoffs of about 3,800 state employees at the UT Medical Branch at Galveston, attributing the action to financial losses stemming from Hurricane Ike....
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 12, 2008
Seattle Children's Hospital has released the final master plan and environmental impact statement for its proposed expansion.Seattle Children's submitted the plan Monday to the city-appointed...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | November 12, 2008
The Association of American Medical Colleges has called on Congress to consider the role U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals play in the nation's fiscal health as lawmakers develop legislation...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 12, 2008
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $364.9 million contract for phase IV construction of the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System's new 150-acre medical campus, the largest construct...