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In a surprise turnaround, the Senate voted Friday afternoon to approve a six-month delay in a 21 percent Medicare physician pay cut from June 1 to December 1, according to the American Hospital Association's AHA NewsNow.
Benefitfocus, a Charleston, S.C.-based developer of software solutions for health and voluntary benefits, has acquired BeliefNetworks, Inc., a provider of content and analytic solutions that measure consumer behavior, marketing campaign data and social networking conversations.
Men make up the majority of non-elderly adults in the United States who lack health insurance, according to an analysis of the 2009 March Current Population Survey.
The Senate failed to pass a bill Thursday that would stall a 21 percent Medicare physician pay cut. Leaders at the American College of Physicians said they are confident a fix, even if temporary, will be passed.
The California Department of Public Health announced this month that five hospitals were assessed administrative fines and penalties totaling $675,000 after it was determined they'd failed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient medical information.
An agreement has been reached that will allow Walgreens to continue participating in the CVS Caremark Corporation's pharmacy benefit management national retail network for existing, new and renewal plans.
The top fifty pharmaceutical companies in the world have some 550 projects in late-stage development, and a new report estimates that these projects have the potential to add more than $70 billion in revenues to the market by 2015.
The Pennsylvania Office of Health Care Reform has appointed an external advisory group that will help implement key elements of the federal healthcare reform act.
Hospitals that don't perform well under a new value-based purchasing model could lose millions of dollars in Medicare reimbursements beginning Oct. 1, 2012, according to VHA.
Overall healthcare prices held steady from April through May, although they were 2.9 percent higher than a year ago, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.