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Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York has announced the $260 million sale of its Manhattan campus to Rudin Management and the North Shore-LIJ Health System, paving the way for the opening of a 24-hour emergency center and ambulatory surgery center in Greenwich Village.
Building on the outrage over proposed cuts to long-term care programs, the California Senate Committee on Health has moved along a bill which seeks to create an integrated system of long-term care, helping seniors stay in their homes and reducing healthcare costs.
One of the most despairing aspects of the last 10 years has been Republicans’ failure to get serious about Medicare spending. As I’ve written many times, Medicare is the monster that will swallow us up if we don’t do something about it. Yet Republicans have made matters worse over the years in a number of ways.
A recent report from the Pew Hispanic Center shows the number of Hispanics counted in the 2010 Census was much larger than expected in most states (out of 33 tallied). Along with a recent YouTube PSA, this information highlights language access problems that exist in industries including healthcare.
A white paper released by MedeAnalytics shows health insurance plans should benefit from the proposed rule on accountable care organizations.
The Council of Accountable Physician Practices, an affiliate of the American Medical Group Association, has announced a new public education program aimed at providing resources and information about the value of care coordination and accountable care to national healthcare reform.
A series of new reports from the RAND Corporation outlines the impact that national healthcare reform will have on individual states, estimating the increased costs and coverage that are expected in five diverse states once reform is fully implemented in 2016.
A Republican budget proposal for 2012, to be presented to Congress this week, seeks to save more than $4 trillion over the next 10 years and would dramatically alter how the government funds both Medicare and Medicaid.
Palmetto Physician Connections, a new government-sponsored health plan, is launching a medical home care model as it looks to build its managed care business with South Carolina's Healthy Connections Choices Medicaid program.
The new proposed regulations on accountable care organizations, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services, launch one of the first delivery-reform initiatives to be implemented under the Accountable Care Act.