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...
ModernHealthcare.com | November 8 - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to get involved in one of the many legal challenges gunning for the core of the national healthcare reform law passed in March.
The court offers no explanation when announcing decisions whether to accept or...
DiagnosticImaging.com | November 5 - A California neurosurgeon has launched what could turn into an epic legal battle over the rights to use diffusion tensor imaging, an MR technology that lately has begun to catch on as a diagnostic and neurosurgical planning tool.
Claiming that he...
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;...