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Aetna last week announced that it will enter into a collaborative care model with the Connecticut State Medical Society Independent Practice Association (CSMS-IPA) incorporating more than 500 CSMS-IPA physicians.
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has decided to continue its participation with a committee that helps to determine how much the government pays doctors despite that committee's rejection of most of AAFP's demands.
The DoD and VA are employing open source in their mammoth joint iEHR to an extent the federal government has not previously attempted –
The owner and operator of a Broward County, Fla.-area halfway house was sentenced Tuesday to 24 months in prison for his role in a Medicare fraud kickback scheme that funneled patients through a fraudulent mental health company.
Aetna and the Connecticut State Medical Society Independent Practice Association have announced a collaborative care model that will incorporate more than 500 CSMS-IPA physicians.
In 2011, the medical device sector posted a total of 170 deals, according to Deal Search Online, the M&A database from Irving Levin Associates. And according to revealed prices, 2011 had a grand total of $63.5 billion in medical device merger and acquisition transactions. We delved a bit deeper into the five largest medical device M&A deals of 2011, as outlined by Irving Levin Associates.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released new regulations for the state health insurance exchanges that give states broad flexibility in their design, while also preserving a role for insurance brokers in the post-exchange marketplace.
National news organizations such as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Reuters are reporting that the Justice Department rejected a $1 billion settlement offer by Johnson & Johnson.
A new survey from KPMG Government Institute finds state governments citing cost, political concerns and legislative uncertainty as big hurdles to planning and implementing state health insurance exchanges.
A new report prepared for The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System offers a series of recommendations to help shore up the finances of safety-net hospitals and promote their ability to provide high-quality care to low-income, vulnerable patients once the health reform law is fully implemented.