Community Benefit
To best meet the goals of optimized, coordinated patient care and also help curb costs, physicians should be at the center of accountable care organizations, the American Medical Association told the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a Dec. 2 letter.
The University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle have been named "Top Hospitals of the Decade" by The Leapfrog Group.
A Connecticut-based developer of radiology tools is donating its solutions to qualifying medical schools with accredited radiologic technologist training programs.
Pittsburgh-based Highmark will offer a childhood obesity prevention benefit to its members starting in 2011 in collaboration with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a program that is expected to help about half a million children.
A hospital in Illinois known as "Good Sam" and a healthcare consulting group in Florida are among seven 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winners.
Diabetes care for Native Americans is significantly underfunded, although that population has the highest per capita incidence of diabetes in the United States.
A report from the International Federation of Health Plans on common medical services and procedures in 12 countries shows some cost as much as four times more in the United States than in other developed nations.
In yet another good news/bad news scenario, lawmakers once again postponed a 23 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements to doctors - but only for one month.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has launched the new application cycle for the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, which received $290 million from the Affordable Care Act this year.
Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark has ordered insurers selling in the commonwealth's individual health insurance market to offer an annual open enrollment period in January for residents under age 19.