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After months of claiming that Americans who like the care they have could keep it under the Democrats' health care reform proposals, President Obama "admitted" Tuesday that some people would lose their health insurance and be forced onto a government-run plan, according to Michael Mahaffey, a spokesperson for Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
MinuteClinic, billed as the largest provider of retail healthcare in the United States, has become a participating provider in all insurance plans offered by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
The American Hospital Association has suggested that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services consider using a separate market basket to update payments for inpatient psychiatric facilities under the IPF prospective payment system.
As U.S. hospitals continue to cut staff during the recession, healthcare executives and administrators are striving to remove inefficiencies across all of their operations.
Palm Bay Community Hospital has opened a new 127,000-square-foot, $75 million expansion that doubles the size of the facility.
A new study released Tuesday by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) questions the widely used estimate of 47 million uninsured Americans.
Increases in physicians’ overall compensation in both primary and specialty care did not keep up with inflation in 2008, according to a new survey by the Medical Group Management Association.
The Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative and five of the nation’s largest health insurers have launched an expansive medical home pilot project.
On Tuesday, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Health held the first of a three-day series of hearings on health reform. The hearings come as Congress is working to deliver on a promise to President Obama to have a health reform law passed by Oct. 1.
A quarter of Americans say they have had difficulty paying for healthcare in the past 12 months, with Baby Boomers and Generation X leading the way, according to a study by Thomson Reuters.