A majority of representatives in the U.S. House wants its leadership to introduce a bill extending extra federal funds to states for Medicaid and other healthcare assistance programs, according to a report by AHA News Now.
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Waterbury, Conn.-based Amkai has changed its name to AmkaiSolutions, according to a release by the company.
If the upcoming 21.3 percent cut in physician Medicare payments were implemented on June 1, 24 percent of osteopathic physicians said they would probably or definitely not see their current Medicare patients if they had a choice, according to a…
Answering the first lawsuit on the health reform law, which challenges the mandate to buy health insurance, the U.S. Justice Department argued that the suit has no standing because the mandate does not take effect until 2014, according to a…
An overnight recovery area opens a whole new world for ASCs looking to build volume with a wider array of procedures, says Joseph Banno, MD, a urologist and founder of the Peoria (Ill.) Day Surgery Center, a four-OR, multispecialty ASC.
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Joseph Stapleton, MD, is an anesthesiologist, pain physician and a partner at East Portland Surgical Center in Happy Valley, OR.
To guide its work in healthcare information technology, the National Quality Forum announced it has formed a new Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC), according to a news release.
As healthcare financing is about to change dramatically under healthcare reform, healthcare costs continue to rise faster than wages and the Consumer Price Index, according to the annual Milliman Medical Index.
A letter to congressional leaders from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius lists the first provisions of the health reform law that will be carried out soon, according to a report by AHA News Now.
The Obama administration has issued rules detailing how health insurers must cover to subscribers' children up to the age of 26 under the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the New York Times.