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Two years after the reauthorization and expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, a state-by-state scorecard designed to evaluate how the system is working finds wide geographic disparities, according to the Commonwealth Fund.
Blue Shield of California will comply with a request by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones to delay planned rate hikes for nearly 200,000 individual policy holders for 60 days to allow the commissioner's office time to examine them.
A new study by the American Medical Association shows that many health insurance markets across the country lack significant competition and are instead dominated by one or two insurance companies.
Medical malpractice reform is one of the few health care policy issues where there is a real possibility of agreement between the White House and Congress.
Patients hospitalized for major acute medical conditions - including heart attack, stroke and pneumonia - are less likely to die in high-spending hospitals, according to a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Tenet Healthcare has reached an agreement with Medicaid managed care program Keystone Mercy Health Plan that covers Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia.
Screening patients in the intensive care unit for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can save hospitals money, according to a new study.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance has released new standards for a patient centered medical home, with changes including improved access to care, a more defined patient experience and the incorporation of meaningful use incentives.
During the 2010 election Republicans promised to “Repeal and Replace” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Having gained a majority in the House of Representatives they quickly passed a bill to do just that (joined by three Democrats). Having failed to gain a majority in the Senate the repeal process is all but over.
Research on post-traumatic stress disorder cost the government $24.5 million in 2009, up from the $9.9 million spent in 2005, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.