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Commentary by William Spratt, a Florida Bar board-certified healthcare attorney, and former healthcare administrator.
Predicting the future is always a risky enterprise. When you commit your prognostications to paper, everyone can remind you when you’re wrong.
About 45,000 office-based physicians may be eligible for up to $63,750 over six years to improve and maintain their health information technology systems because of their participation in Medicaid, according to a new study.
As the health reform debate continues, the Democratic proposal for a public health plan option seems to be a hot topic for reform opponents. But the truth is, public programs already exist in the United States – with more than half of all Americans eligible for them. They seem to be not only quite welcome, but are mainstays of our society's (dare I say the forbidden words?) "common good."
President Barack Obama says America can no longer live with the status quo when it comes to healthcare.
According to the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, the largest all-payer emergency department database in the United States, uninsured persons accounted for nearly one-fifth of the 120 million hospital-based emergency department visits in 2006.
After four months of discussion, South Dakota-based Sanford Health and the North Dakota-based MeritCare Health System have announced plans to merge, creating one of the country's largest integrated healthcare systems.
A University of Oregon study on disease management patients who were coached using a survey tool called the Patient Activation Measure showed significant improvements in clinical outcomes, fewer hospitalizations and ER visits and cost savings over patients who received traditional telephonic coaching.
In an attempt to solve the long-term nursing shortage, healthcare leaders in Maryland have announced grants of $15.5 million over five years to 17 in-state nursing schools.
The American Hospital Association has reached an agreement with the Obama Administration on a "framework" for reimbursement concessions and other key changes that could help achieve national healthcare reform. The agreement involves a hospital commitment of $155 billion in Medicare and Medicaid savings over the next 10 years to cover to help cover the cost of reform.