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WASHINGTON – For the second time in two months, President Bush vetoed legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program in an effort to prevent Congressional Democrats from...
WASHINGTON – Dialysis patients got a six-month reprieve in December when both the Senate and the House approved the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Act of 2007. However, many groups are still worri...
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a report to Congress recommending major changes to its Medicare hospital reimbursement system. Touting qua...
WASHINGTON – Congress used special methods late in December to approve a bill that would defer a 10.1 percent Medicare payment cut for physicians that was scheduled to take effect January 1....
CHICAGO – Healthcare organizations are under the gun to increase efficiency and optimize investments in radiological systems, as cuts implemented this year in Medicare reimbursement for out...
BOSTON – When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts decided in April 2006 to make it mandatory that all residents have health insurance, officials realized they’d better have something in...
Contributed by Sen. Chuck Grassley HEALTHCARE REFORM has been elusive over the past two decades. Neither Congress nor the sitting president has been able to agree on ways to improve our hea...
A study conducted in part by ActiveHealth Management has found that a value-based insurance design program can increase compliance on the use of certain medications for chronic conditions if coupled w...
WASHINGTON – Long-term care groups are concerned about the conflicting pressures of increasing calls for quality and declining reimbursements. Nursing home organizations were hopin...
FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Newt Gingrich and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) have added their voices to the call for electronic prescribing. Kerry is among the sponsors of bipartisan legislation...