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The American Hospital Association is urging the House Financial Services Committee to include tax-exempt hospital bonds in any legislation to help the municipal securities market.

President Barack Obama will have a key role in healthcare reform, according to Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

UNC Hospitals, a 724-bed academic medical center located in Chapel Hill, N.C., plans to implement a new automated Software-as-a-Service tool to manage the hospital's supply contracts and services agreements.

Automating the nation's healthcare system could save the government nearly $600 billion in spending over the next decade and $9 trillion over the next 25 years, according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Democratic Leadership Council.

The Carolinas HealthCare System has introduced a wellness plan that will pay employees to enhance their health and fitness.

The U.S. Comptroller General has announced the appointment of two new members and the reappointment of five existing members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC.

Women are more likely than men to feel the pinch of rising health costs and eroding health benefits, a new Commonwealth Fund study finds.

The leadership of Willamette Falls Hospital in Oregon City, Ore., has approved an agreement to join Providence Health and Services, a not-for-profit health system with facilities in Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon and California.

It's back to the homework table for the nation's leading healthcare groups that met with President Barack Obama on Monday to discuss $2 trillion of cuts to the skyrocketing cost of healthcare.

According to a recent survey, health plans believe the transition to the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedure coding system presents an opportunity to drive their information technology initiatives.