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The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration has approved a pilot program designed to improve healthcare quality, enhance service and reduce costs for its members in Sacramento, Placer and El Dorado counties.
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has signed into law the Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act, which will provide health coverage to more than 100,000 uninsured Coloradans and reduce uncompensated care and cost shifting.
Age, gender and family priorities are among the top factors affecting physician retention, according to the American Medical Group Association.
The Institute of Medicine's March symposium on health reform for older patients recommended that healthcare professionals be trained to meet the needs of this growing segment of the population.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule to update the Medicare Hospice Wage Index for fiscal year 2010, which would decrease Medicare payments by approximately 1.1 percent.
The West Penn Allegheny Health System has filed a lawsuit against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a Pittsburgh-based integrated global health enterprise and nonprofit health system, and Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark, Inc., charging them with conspiracy and antitrust.
The University of Chicago has partnered with a provider of online healthcare compliance and competency software to build a Web-based tool for the management and real-time tracking of conflict of interest disclosures.
Universal coverage could help "significantly" reduce health disparities, according to a Commonwealth Fund-supported study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The city of Tulsa, Okla., has selected Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma to be its health insurance provider, effective July 1, 2009.
Key Senate leaders have confirmed their commitment to write legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system by early June.