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McKesson has bolstered its cancer care platform with the purchase of US Oncology, a Woodlands, Texas-based developer of clinical tools, guidelines and care pathways for doctors and others in the field of cancer-related healthcare.
A Connecticut state senator and a union-backed labor group are calling on Gov. Jodi Rell to dismiss Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan for what they contend is politically motivated lax oversight of health insurers in the state.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research says 3 million Californians are enrolled in high-deductible health plans - which are often the only insurance the self-employed or those with low incomes can afford.
A patient recruiter for a Houston-based home healthcare company has pled guilty in connection with a $5.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
Anthem Blue Cross has announced the launch of a new website in California designed to provide reliable, up-to-the-minute information to women about health issues specific to them.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is weighing what quality measures to use for a website it is developing to help consumers compare physicians, an offering that is required under the health reform law enacted earlier this year.
The Johns Hopkins Health System is acquiring Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., a move designed to boost the Baltimore-based health system's exposure in the nation's capital and give Sibley some much-needed resources and financial stability.
A stubborn recession continues to put economic pressures on hospitals, governments and the public and they coalesce on the topic of how charity care affects tax exemptions.
A developer of mobile healthcare IT solutions for people with chronic diseases is launching a home monitoring tool for diabetics in an effort to rein in skyrocketing healthcare costs and help beleaguered family practitioners.
Death may be the final act, but the unpaid hospital bill is the denouement.