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In a bipartisan battle over how to protect Medicare's future, the House passed a measure last week to prevent President Bush from going forward with a proposed Medicare savings plan.The Hous...
In an effort to increase the use of energy-efficient technology, the Department of Energy has launched the EnergySmart Hospitals initiative at the annual meeting of the American Society for Healthcare...
Federal intervention will be needed if the United States hopes to advance nationwide healthcare IT adoption, according to Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag.At a House panel he...
Lester E. Cox Medical Centers, a not-for-profit healthcare system headquartered in Springfield, Mo., has agreed to pay $60 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kick...
The Colorado Rural Health Care Grant Council has awarded more than $1.9 million in grants to strengthen healthcare delivery in rural communities. More than $800,000 of that money will go to healthcare...
A new bill seeks to support the use of patients' homes and community-based services as care sites, potentially providing several different financing incentives to the healthcare system.Sens....
A federal judge has approved a $255 million settlement against Health Net Inc. and several regional subsidiaries to settle three class action suits charging that it improperly reimbursed members for c...
A new report shows that alcohol-related problems take a $38.4 billion toll annually on the state of California. Alcohol-related illnesses alone represent 47 percent or $18.2 billion of the an...
A representative of the largest medical specialty organization in the United States told Congress Thursday that mandating the use of healthcare IT in the absence of positive financial incentives for p...
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, has proposed an overhaul of the Medicare physician payment system to prevent geographic adjusters from penalizing doc...