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10.08.2012		Report: Romney Healthcare Plan Could Leave 72M Uninsured With the U.S. presidential election just weeks away, healthcare and health reform are in the national spotlight. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney have proposed distinctly different approaches to solving some of the most...

08.31.2012		Diagnostic Errors in the ICU Alarmingly Common A new study by patient safety experts estimates that each year, as many as 40,500 critically ill U.S. hospital patients die with an unknown medical condition that could have caused or contributed to their death. In the study, conducted by the Johns Hopkins...

07.13.2012		Top 10 Questions About Value-Based Purchasing Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a 34-page document that sought to answer questions about the dominant themes surrounding the federal organization's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program, which starts shelling out...

07.12.2012		2 Forces Gain Momentum in Caring for Costly 'Dual Eligibles' The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is laying down the groundwork for improved care coordination throughout the U.S. healthcare system, but more reforms and greater integration will likely be needed to better coordinate healthcare services for...

05.21.2012		Financial Incentives for Healthcare Professionals May Be Ineffective While financial incentives have the potential to be a driving force toward lower costs and higher quality in the healthcare industry, a new study suggests that more than 75 percent of incentives are so small or poorly communicated that they go unnoticed by...

03.19.2012		Public Disclosure of Surgical Infection Rates Varies Widely Across States Less than half of all U.S. states require hospitals to make data on surgical infections public, and in states where disclosure is mandated, the information is often not easily accessible to patients who could use it to make decisions about their healthcare...

02.17.2012		Budget Proposal Analysis: Home Health Copays Could Hurt Low-Income Patients President Barack Obama rolled out a proposed budget Feb. 13 for the upcoming fiscal year that would slash federal spending on healthcare programs by about $360 billion over the next decade, including $320 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts, as well as...

01.13.2012		86% of Medical Errors Go Unreported, as Hospital Costs Soar A troubling number of medical errors slip through the cracks at hospitals, and facilities don’t often change hospital policies when errors are detected, according to a new report released Jan. 5 by the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S...

12.16.2011		Drug Shortages Hit All-Time High, Prompt Government Action The number of drug shortages in the United States has grown substantially since 2006 and hit an all-time high in 2011, posing a risk to patients who rely on live-saving drugs for medical procedures and treatment. That’s according to a new report...

10.24.2011		Targeted for Quality, Hospital Infections Are on the Decline Four common infections most often acquired in hospitals and other healthcare facilities declined in 2010, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC data, published Oct. 19, found that there was a 33...

10.17.2011		Drop in Trauma Centers Means Less Access for Poor, Minorities A growing number of hospitals are shutting down expensive trauma centers, a trend that is leaving many African Americans, low-income individuals and residents in rural areas without convenient access to potentially life-saving crisis care, according to a new...

10.13.2011		AMA Recommends Payment Revisions for 'Team Based' Care Coordination Last week the American Medical Association made a formal request to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, recommending that the federal insurance body implement new and revised medical codes for a number of care coordination services that are...

09.27.2011		Health Premiums Rise 9%, Outpace Wage Increases The cost of health insurance premiums in the United States rose sharply this year compared to previous years, outpacing the rate of inflation and growth in workers’ wages and fueling the attitude that medical costs are rising at an unsustainable...

09.09.2011		Study: High Doc Fees Contribute to Increased Healthcare Spending U.S. physicians are paid more per service than doctors in other countries, making doctor fees one of the contributing drivers of higher healthcare spending in the United States, argues a new study that appears in the September issue of Health Affairs...

08.01.2011		Birth Control, 7 Other Services Will Be Free in '12 New federal regulations issued August 1 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will ensure that women with health insurance receive certain preventive health services at no additional cost. All health insurance plans beginning on or...

07.27.2011		Drug Shortages Abound, Threaten Patient Safety Increasing drug shortages around the country are causing delays in medical treatments for patients and making it more difficult for health professionals to provide quality care. A July study by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists found...

07.20.2011		Report: Birth Control Should Be Among Free Preventive Services for Women A report by the Institute of Medicine is recommending that insurance companies provide eight new preventive services to women at no cost – including free birth control – as part of new free benefits available to patients under the federal...

06.28.2011		Bill Would Expand Home Health Referral Powers to NPs, PAs Seniors would have faster access to home health services if a new bipartisan bill that allows nurses and physicians’ assistants to approve these services for Medicare patients is passed by Congress. Current Medicare regulations recognize nurse...

06.24.2011		Democrats, Republicans Still at Odds Over Medicaid Reform Members of the U.S. Senate continued the debate on how to sustain the nation’s entitlement programs, including Medicaid, at a Senate Finance Committee hearing Thursday. The public hearing was the fourth in a series that examined options for...

06.21.2011		Prevention Takes Center Stage, With Chronic Disease Its Target The federal government rolled out its first-ever National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy on June 16, aimed at promoting healthy habits and curbing health problems like heart disease, diabetes and cancer. The 122-page plan was commissioned by...

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