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By a vote of 3-1 the commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission have given the go-ahead for pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts to complete its $29 billion merger with rival PBM Medco.
Kativa Patel, MD, has her feet planted in both the clinical world of healthcare and the policy one. She is a primary care internist who shaped policy at the White House and continues to shape the conversation around healthcare on a national level in a variety of roles.
A report released Thursday by the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) along with the Missouri Primary Care Association details both the many challenges and opportunities for collaborations between the state's hospitals and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs).
Despite the distractions of an election year and the Supreme Court review of the Affordable Care Act, healthcare companies and providers are looking beyond immediate issues as they seek to offset the recent decline in healthcare spending, says Moody's in its latest Healthcare Quarterly.
If the Supreme Court follows its usual schedule, by the end of today nine people will know the fate of the Affordable Care Act and the individual mandate. It will likely be nearly three months before the rest of us know how the Justices voted today.
Before Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) got to Washington, D.C., she made a name for herself as a state legislator who co-sponsored legislation that later became the footprint for the federal State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
According to research presented last week at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session, the likelihood of heart failure patient readmission can be drastically lowered when using a simple checklist before patients leave the hospital.
Iconic Data has announced the release of SwiftPayMD, a revenue cycle management app for the iPhone and iPad that's designed to enable doctors to immediately bill for their services.
On the third and final day of the healthcare law hearings at the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, the major question the battling attorneys took up was whether Congress would have enacted the health reform law without the part that may be found to be unconstitutional.
In a recent 4-0 vote, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made the decision to uphold Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell's December order for Toledo, Ohio-based Promedica to divest St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, Ohio.