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Online advertised vacancies for healthcare practitioners, technical occupations and support personnel increased significantly in March, according to a report released this week.
Nearly one million patient-safety incidents occurred among Medicare patients between 2006 and 2008, costing U.S. hospitals $8.9 billion.
While President Barack Obama makes a stop in Maine Thursday to support his recently passed healthcare reform bill, healthcare organizations in the state say they don't expect to hear anything new from his visit.
Healthcare reform will save billions of dollars, the Consumers Union said Wednesday.
President Barack Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 on Wednesday. The law is the companion to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that he signed into law on March 23.
Forty-eight upstate New York hospitals earned more than $22 million in quality improvement incentive payments from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield as part of the health insurer's Hospital Performance Incentive Program.
Launched in 2004, the program uses nationally recognized standards and guidelines to address specific areas for improvement, including clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction and efficiency.
"Aetna is dedicated to helping people achieve health and financial security, and we believe fostering a healthy environment is an important part of this mission," reads the health insurer's environmental policy statement. "We are committed to limiting our environmental impact by reducing our energy consumption and the use of other resources… because we recognize the impact of a clean environment on the health of our members."
American Well, which offers Web-based physician visits for members of health plans in Hawaii and Minnesota, has landed another contract closer to home.
NaviNet, the country's largest real-time healthcare communications network, has announced a partnership with major health insurers in New Jersey to build a multi-payer portal as a "one-stop shop" for physicians to communicate directly with an array of health plans.
L.A. Care Health Plan's board of governors has awarded $500,000 to jump-start the planning process for a new Martin Luther King Hospital in south Los Angeles.