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House Republicans voted yesterday to reject a Senate deal that would have extended the payroll tax break and unemployment benefits and provided physicians a reprieve on a 27.4 percent Medicare payment cut.
As President Barack Obama noted Thursday when introducing proposed regulations for minimum wage and overtime protection for home healthcare workers, the home healthcare workforce is the largest and fastest growing in the country. A new analysis finds that required training for some of these workers has gone largely unchanged in almost 25 years.
U.S. healthcare prices increased in November 2011, rising 0.4 percent over October prices, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
President Barack Obama yesterday gave home healthcare workers a boost of confidence when he announced his administration is proposing minimum wage and overtime protections for the country's nearly 2 million home care workers.
The number of young people entering the nursing profession is surging, providing relief from the recent nursing shortage, according to an article in the December issue of Health Affairs.
A growing number of hospitals nationwide are hiring former drug and device sales representatives to visit doctors' offices to persuade them to use their services over competing facilities.
The December Health Sector Economic Indicators briefs released last week by Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending reports slowing growth for healthcare price, spending and employment in October 2011.
As the country faces a shortage of doctors in the coming decades as the demand for them increases, one Midwestern state has put a number on just how many extra doctors per year it will need to avoid a crisis: 100.
Having a hard time finding physicians who are the right fit for your organization? You're not alone. A recent article posted by the MGMA e-Source recognized the looming physician shortage, and it mentioned the need for qualified physicians is projected to be worse than originally thought. Jennifer Metivier gives us eight tips for improving physician recruitment.
Doctors are more stressed out than ever before says a new study by Physician Wellness Services (PWS) and Cejka Search and the impact of that increased stress is underestimated to the detriment of all.