Community Benefit
The Affordable Care Act’s medical loss ratio issue (requiring insurers’ administrative and other non-medical costs to remain below prescribed percentages) has dropped out of the limelight recently, but that doesn’t mean that it’s been forgotten.
A lot of rebuilding has been happening in Joplin, Mo., following the May 22 tornado that devastated the community. Soon to be added to the lengthy list of projects is a new hospital to replace the destroyed St. John's Regional Medical Center.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday $40 million in grants for efforts to identify and enroll children eligible for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
The world market for preventative vaccines totaled $25.3 billion in 2010, up from $22.1 billion in 2009, according to a report published by Kalorama Information.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is seeking feedback on eight topics selected for the first pilot projects targeted for grant funding. The pilots will be used to establish national priorities for patient-centered outcome research (PCOR).
Ever since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed, opponents have looked for ways to overturn it in the court of law and the court of public opinion.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $49 million in grants to improve the quality of healthcare and strengthen the public health infrastructure - double the spending for the same programs in 2010.
A Los Angeles-based IT entrepreneur wants to pare down the expensive EMR to its simplest charting functions, add a few solutions and offer it to non-profits looking to provide healthcare to disadvantaged populations around the world.
Healthcare reform means moving from a provider-centric to a patient-centric model of care, said Jamie Orlikoff, president of the Chicago-based consulting firm Orlikoff & Associates, to an audience at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) conference in Boston on Tuesday.
Seeking to ward off more funding cuts in FY 2012, the National Association of Community Health Centers released a report Monday detailing why community health centers are a good deal.