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Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and national drugstore chain Walgreens have entered into a wide-ranging agreement designed to promote collaboration on population-based research and develop protocols to improve outcomes of patients with chronic diseases.
Since 2008, primary and specialty-care physicians have either seen their first-year guaranteed compensation increase or stay the same, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Physician Placement Starting Salary Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data."
Based on its model of managing chronic illness and proactive health management, Healthstat has been selected by Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield to manage an on-site health clinic for employees and dependents covered under its health benefit plan.
Last week’s startlingly gloomy annual report from the Trustees of the Medicare Trust Funds lent new urgency to the need for further Medicare expenditure reforms. Whether Washington DC politicians will respond with more than sound bites is less likely.
Aetna and P4 Healthcare, a division of Cardinal Health, have announced an expansion of its evidence-based program to improve care by identifying and promoting best practices in the treatment of certain types of cancer.
New MainStream Capital and MBF Healthcare Partners have announced the merger of Tennessee-based SunCrest Healthcare and Florida-based OMNI Home Care, creating one of the largest post-acute care providers of home health services in the southeastern United States.
A study in The Archives of Internal Medicine has listed the top five activities in family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics where the quality of care could be improved and costs of care could be reduced.
The Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minn., and the Altru Health System of North Dakota have announced a new alliance.
A new survey indicates 82 percent of the leaders in health and healthcare policy believe states should be allowed to implement key provisions of the Affordable Care Act with full federal support ahead of the timeline outlined in the law.
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has announced a $241 million settlement - the largest recovery in the history of the state's False Claims Act - with Quest Diagnostics to recover illegal overcharges to the state's medical program for the poor.