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Journalists typically aren’t schooled in high-level advanced economic thought. I am certainly no exception to that rule.But after covering the business of healthcare for 25 years, that...
BOSTON – Legislation in Massachusetts to set nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals was stalemated last month, killing the initiative for the rest of this year.Proponents of the...
The 110th Congress is in its summer recess, and the usual calm before the storm is hovering over Washington. Fall always brings a harvest of legislative activity as lawmakers strive to deliver on prom...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – The Department of Health and Human Services plans to expand a national network of local organizations, called chartered value exchanges (CVEs), that will have access...
Forty-seven million. That, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is how many people in the United States have no health insurance. It’s a number that no politician is comfortable with and is the...
CHICAGO – According to the latest survey by Aon Consulting, employers will face a 10.6 percent increase in healthcare costs. Aon Consulting Worldwide, a global human capital consulting...
National medical equipment provider, Rotech Healthcare Inc., has paid $2 million to settle civil charges that it engaged in false or fraudulent conduct in billing Medicare for durable medical equipmen...
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Government health insurers overpay specialists compared to primary care doctors and “exacerbate the shortage of primary care physicians,” according to a study by Harv...
WASHINGTON – Five major California-based payers have settled with the Department of Managed Health Care, the state’s health insurance regulator, over illegal rescissions, but the issue of...
Puget Sound Health Alliance are set to release a second local provider report card to the public in November. The report will show results of care for patients with diabetes, heart disease, depression...