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WellPoint's board of directors have selected a health system executive, Joseph Swedish, to head the company after last August's investor-stoked departure of Angela Braly.
Data released by human resources services and staffing company Randstad shows that healthcare workers' confidence in the strength of the economy and the availability of jobs increased in the fourth quarter of 2012.
It should be no surprise that President Barack Obama launched into the intertwined matters of sequestration and deficit reduction -- with a focus on how they impact healthcare -- before addressing other sectors of the U.S. economy during his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Rural hospitals are girding for harsh impacts from a 2 percent decrease in Medicare reimbursements under federal spending sequestration, set to take effect in March, by taking advantage of how they already operate, a new report suggests.
As the IRS finalizes regulations for the Affordable Care Act's individual and employer mandates, the complex eligibility and exemption framework being proposed has some legal analysts worried that working families in certain income brackets won't be eligible for premium support.
Last year, through healthcare fraud judgments, settlements and other proceedings, the federal government recovered $4.2 billion the Justice and Health and Human Services departments announced on Monday.
Out of the 258 accountable care organizations (ACOs) recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 60 of them, across more than 15 states, have banded together to form the National Association of ACOs.
Peoria, Ill.-based Methodist Health Services Corp. has filed a lawsuit accusing the region's largest provider of breaking antitrust laws with "exclusionary" contracts that limit commercial insurers' ability to contract with other hospitals.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a significant decline in central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), but Consumers Union says more needs to be done, since the report also suggests most hospitals have not made significant overall infection improvements in five years.
Methodist Health Services Corp., a Peoria, Ill.-based health system, has filed a lawsuit accusing the region's largest provider of breaking antitrust laws with "exclusionary" contracts that limit commercial insurers' ability to contract with other hospitals.