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A new report released by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius indicates minorities and low-income Americans are more likely to get sick, but are less likely to seek care.

Democrats on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions released a health reform bill Tuesday that would build on employer-based coverage and include a public health plan option.

Middle market healthcare executives favor the Obama administration's proposed healthcare reform initiatives by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, according to a study by the CIT Group.

Valerie Fetters, chief financial officer of Hillsdale Community Health Center, an 84-bed hospital in Hillsdale, Mich., is used to keeping an eye on the bottom line.

Hospitals have had a difficult year, with charity care and bad debt increasing, investments losing value, Medicaid cuts and all the uncertainty over healthcare reform.

Hospitals are cutting staff, resources and education for infection prevention at a time when healthcare-associated infections are on the rise, says a new report.

The American Medical Association will meet next week in Chicago for a five-day policy-making meeting that will include discussion on the healthcare IT provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Medicare physician payment reform.

For the first time in 50 years, "we finally have a shot at healthcare reform," said Scott Malan, executive director of federal affairs for Stevens and Lee. This summer, Congress will be working on comprehensive healthcare reform legislation.

NaviNet has launched two new online solutions designed to help health plans improve their relationship with providers.

Among the topics ready to take center stage at HFMA's 2009 ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference is the increase in consumer-directed healthcare - in particular, the increase in options available to the consumer to pay for his or her healthcare needs.