Policy and Legislation
The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed its lawsuit against Omnicare after the long-term care pharmacy provider dropped its hostile bid to take over rival PharMerica.
As expected, the next stage of meaningful use builds on the criteria set forth in the first stage.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released a draft of the national plan to address Alzheimer's disease, an affliction that affected an estimated 5.4 million Americans in 2011 and is expected to affect 13.2 million by 2050.
The attorneys general from 12 states have filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to support the ACA.
Last Friday, lawmakers voted to postpone a 27.4 percent payment cut to doctors as part of its payroll tax cut package. The postponement of the pay cut provides temporary relief for doctors but increases the federal deficit and has angered those in the healthcare sectors paying for it.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday that consumers will soon begin receiving unprecedented information on the value of their health insurance coverage, and some will receive rebates from insurance companies that spend less than 80 percent of their premium dollars on healthcare.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has paid $3.12 billion to physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers who have started to meaningfully use electronic health records to improve the quality of patient care, HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday.
A jury for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin awarded $52,009,941 in damages to Promega Corporation from Madison, Wis. on Wednesday for infringing sales by Life Technologies from Carlsbad, Calif.
Doctors are once again facing a postponement of a Medicare payment cut under a deal brokered by the House-Senate committee charged with writing a bill extending the payroll tax reduction.
The Affordable Care Act provided approximately 54 million Americans with at least one new free preventive service in 2011 through their private health insurance plans, Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services secretary, announced Wednesday.