The Wall Street Journal | November 8 - The traditional model of doctors hanging up their own shingles is fading fast, as more go to work directly for hospitals that are building themselves into consolidated health-care providers.
The latest sign of the continued shift comes from a...
The Los Angeles Times | November 3 - The Obama administration Tuesday approved a $10-billion plan to help California modernize its Medicaid health insurance program, pushing the state to the forefront of the national effort to implement the new healthcare law.
The administration's much-anticipated decision to...
HealthLeadersMedia.com | October 28 - For a good part of Tuesday, health providers across the country lined up in a federal phone cue.
They'd been invited to a special forum to express their deep concerns about a major piece of health reform rules yet to be written;...
HealthLeadersMedia.com | November 3 - A Rhode Island Hospital report shows that 33 patients needed 305 medical interventions to remove foreign objects, including knives, razor blades, and batteries that were intentionally swallowed, resulting in more than $2 million in hospital costs over eight years.
The findings appear...
WashingtonPost.com | November 1 - While most people are focused on the midterm elections Tuesday, the American Medical Association is gearing up for the lame-duck congressional session scheduled to start Nov. 15. Unless Congress intervenes, payments to doctors for treating Medicare patients will be cut...
