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The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to block long-term care pharmacy services company OmniCare Inc.'s hostile takeover attempt of rival PharMerica Corp.
Driven by increased revenue pressures and challenges resulting from the transition to a new healthcare delivery model as a result of national healthcare reform, the outlook for the U.S. not-for-profit healthcare sector remains negative for 2012, says Moody's Investors Service in a new report.
Acting CMS leader Marilyn Tavenner pushes for better care, better health and lower costs in her speech at the Care Innovations Summit on Thursday.
Florida trails most states on healthcare reform, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.
Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, expressed urgency in pressing forward with the "triple aim" goals of better individual health care, better population health and lower costs called for in the health reform law and translated into initiatives by her predecessor.
The healthcare industry is making progress but is being held back by a broken political structure, said American College of Physicians leadership Thursday in a live web broadcast reviewing its State of the Nation's Health Care report.
In addition to being the sole state named on the moniker Florida et al vs. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services case that the Supreme Court will hear in late March, Florida is one of four states trailing the most on health reform.
New drugs in three multi-billion dollar categories will help pharmaceutical companies offset patent expirations and will ease pressure on credit rating outlooks, says a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
Recently, the Huron Consulting Group released its report, "Leading Through Transformation: Top Healthcare CEO's Perspectives on the Future of Healthcare." The report included insights from the Huron Healthcare CEO Forum and took a hard look at some of the top industry issues that will be plaguing CEOs in the year to come.
A new report published online in the journal Health Affairs showed that 94.2 percent of the non-elderly population in Massachusetts had health insurance, a significant increase over the 86.6 percent who were insured prior to the state's health reforms.