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Grants for nursing education have been awarded to seven California community college-university partnerships.

According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, more than half of Americans surveyed believe that if universal health coverage is passed by Congress, it will not ensure equal access to care because of capacity constraints, particularly in emergency rooms.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index found that Americans' confidence in their health insurance coverage and access to healthcare rose slightly in June.

The nation could save billions of dollars each year in the healthcare system by addressing certain areas of administrative complexity, according to a new report from the Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition.

The nation could save billions of dollars each year in the healthcare system by reducing administrative complexity, according to the Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition.

St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading, Pa., has selected a vendor to manage the medical billing processes for its physician network.

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named a new Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for Jurisdiction 7, which includes Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Hospitals in the Los Angeles market are struggling to recruit physicians, particularly sub-specialists, to be on-call to provide emergency care.

In the thick of the health reform debate, health plans say they support covering pre-existing conditions as long as there is a mandate that everyone be covered.

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.