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WASHINGTON – Thirty states will share more than $49 million in grants awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services to support their high-risk pools.More than 200,000 individua...
GAO exposes flaws in CMS approval of DME suppliersMedicare is doing a poor job in screening suppliers of durable medical equipment, having failed to identify two fake suppliers in a recent...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – The Department of Health and Human Services plans to expand a national network of local organizations, called chartered value exchanges (CVEs), that will have access...
'Paperless' clinical trials could save moneyThe British market analyst Datamonitor claims that life science companies annually spend from $12 million to $17 million on mailings and copies...
Journalists typically aren’t schooled in high-level advanced economic thought. I am certainly no exception to that rule.But after covering the business of healthcare for 25 years, that...
The 110th Congress is in its summer recess, and the usual calm before the storm is hovering over Washington. Fall always brings a harvest of legislative activity as lawmakers strive to deliver on prom...
According to a new study on healthcare costs, it would take $123 billion dollars, or an additional 5 percent in national health spending, to cover the uninsured.The study, released August 25...
ESCONDIDO, CA – Palomar Medical Center West has faced growing costs since its inception in 2004, yet hospital officials believe the facility has been designed in a way that will positively impac...
WASHINGTON – Five major California-based payers have settled with the Department of Managed Health Care, the state’s health insurance regulator, over illegal rescissions, but the issue of...
Forty-seven million. That, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is how many people in the United States have no health insurance. It’s a number that no politician is comfortable with and is the...