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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a new demonstration project that will continue the push to keep patients with chronic conditions in their homes rather than place them in long-term care facilities.
Colorado, Minnesota, Oregon and Pennsylvania will take part in the National Governors Association's collaborative to address chronic disease prevention. Chronic disease is a major contributor to rising healthcare costs, accounting for 84 percent of U.S. healthcare spending.
With the cost of medically unnecessary care estimated to be in the billions of dollars, a new campaign is setting out to change the medical profession's and society's usage of healthcare.
Pharmaceutical companies outsourced $36.6 billion in global research and development expenses to contract drug developers in 2011, up 6.6 percent from 2009, according to healthcare research firm Kalorama Information.
As President Barack Obama noted Thursday when introducing proposed regulations for minimum wage and overtime protection for home healthcare workers, the home healthcare workforce is the largest and fastest growing in the country. A new analysis finds that required training for some of these workers has gone largely unchanged in almost 25 years.
HHS said its approach is designed to make sure that consumers have quality and affordable coverage starting in 2014.
President Barack Obama yesterday gave home healthcare workers a boost of confidence when he announced his administration is proposing minimum wage and overtime protections for the country's nearly 2 million home care workers.
The proportion of Americans reporting problems affording prescription drugs remained level between 2007 and 2010, with more than one in eight going without a prescribed drug in 2010, according to a national study released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change. Despite the flat numbers, the news isn't necessarily good.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $218 million Wednesday to 26 hospitals and health systems to reduce the millions of preventable injuries and complications caused by healthcare-acquired conditions each year.
The number of young people entering the nursing profession is surging, providing relief from the recent nursing shortage, according to an article in the December issue of Health Affairs.