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First-year enrollment at the nation's medical schools this year increased nearly 2 percent to more than 18,000 students - the highest enrollment in history, according to the Association of American Me...
Taking financial steps to bridge the gap between the "have and have-not" hospitals is critical to hospital viability, The Joint Commission asserted in a report released Thursday.Hos...
Joining the recent flurry of healthcare-related activity on Capitol Hill, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Republican Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced Thursday they...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded National Heritage Insurance Corporation a contract of up to five years for the administration of Part A and Part B Medicare claims payments...
Radiology costs, fairly stable since 2005, are rising again for insurers, according to HealthLeaders-InterStudy.In several recent reports in Health Plan Analysis, HealthLeaders-InterSt...
The MetroHealth System, one of the largest healthcare systems in Ohio, plans to cut 112 jobs in order to break even financially in 2009.According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, layoffs...
The American College of Physicians has released a white paper that supports the importance of primary care in providing patients with better outcomes at lower cost and the urgency of the need to preve...
Low fees discourage physicians from treating Medicaid patients, but payment delays also play an important role in physician decisions to avoid Medicaid patients, according to a study by the Center for...
President-elect Barack Obama has nominated former Sen. Tom Daschle(D-S.D.) to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services,according to Capitol Hill sources.The Obama transition team ha...
More than 2 million low-income Medicare beneficiaries may face a disruption in their prescription drug coverage in January due to changes to the 2009 Medicare Part D plans.According to a new...