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President Barack Obama mentioned healthcare in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, but it wasn't at the top of the list.
Physician re-entry programs should be easier and better coordinated nationwide, according to the American Medical Association.
Sentara Healthcare of Norfolk, Va., has been named the top integrated healthcare network in the country, according to the SDI 2011 Top 100 IHNs. This is the 14th year that SDI has ranked healthcare networks on their performance and degree of integration.
Experts at the eHealth Initiative's annual conference, held Jan. 19-21 in Washington, D.C., offered their advice on how to accomplish coordinated care "in the real world."
New reimbursement models driven by healthcare reform top the list of healthcare provider predictions for 2011 from IDC Health Insights analysts Judy Hanover and Lynn Dunbrack.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices increased slightly from November to December, rising 0.3 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The government's healthcare fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered more than $4 billion in taxpayer dollars for the Medicare, Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program in 2010, the largest sum ever recovered in a single year, according to findings published in the government's Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program report.
Experts attending the National Congress on Health Insurance Reform in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19-21 expressed doubt that Republicans would be able to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, even as the House voted to repeal the law.
The Office of the Inspector General has reported that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' policy of prepayment to Medicare Advantage plans allowed the private insurers to earn and retain more than $450 million in interest income in 2007.
PeaceHealth, a six-hospital health system based in Bellevue, Wash., has begun implementation of a managed services deal that will increase the number of outsourced clinical staff and workforce management processes.