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Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 would seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act and again contains a major overhaul of Medicare via competition and premium support.
As reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Thursday, overall hospital prices have increased over the last year.
As the director of a federal agency for healthcare research and quality, Carolyn Clancy, MD, leads the country in trying to find ways the healthcare system can improve in quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness.
The Supreme Court will likely uphold the health reform law or put it off until after the elections by upholding the Anti-Injunction Act, which is one of the foundations of the lawsuit, according to many industry experts.
The "uninsurables"-- people with serious medical conditions who can't buy health coverage on the private market -- are supposed to have a safety net to rely on in the new preexisting condition insurance plans (PCIPs). These comprehensive plans, created by the federal health care law, take all comers who have been uninsured for at least six months. The premiums can be expensive, however, running several hundred dollars a month.
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, an advocate for the use of electronic health records, touted preventive care and the benefits of health reform when she spoke in Maine on Monday on the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
In recognition of the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act becoming law, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, spoke in central Maine on Monday about the benefits of the law and the importance of prevention to the future of health in the country.
HealthGrades, a provider of consumer healthcare information, named America's best 50 and 100 hospitals for 2012.
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has awarded CSC a $297 million contract to replace the state's Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) and provide fiscal agent services for selected programs, according to CSC officials. The contract has a five-year base period with three two-year options.
Ninety percent of hospitals and health systems are either leaving 2012 salary increase budgets unchanged from 2011 or increasing budgets from 2011, according to a new survey from consulting firm Integrated Healthcare Strategies (IHS).