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CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield will give more than $8.5 million over three years to help 12 safety net health center programs in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. implement medical home and care coordination programs for the region's most vulnerable population, the chronically ill.
Healthcare cost variations create $36 billion in annual waste, which could be better controlled with increased pricing transparency, according to a new white paper from Thomson Reuters.
Tuesday is presidentail primary day in Arizona, and while the candidates may all be elsewhere, The Grand Canyon State has its share of healthcare logjams.
The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have formed a partnership that may lead toward a formal affiliation the NUHW announced last week.
ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, announced the winners of its first-annual Healthcare Supply Chain Achievement Award.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released Feb. 24 its proposed rule for for the certification of electronic health record systems.
A new USA Today/Gallup poll of voters in 12 "swing" states that will likely decide the presidential election shows health reform is hurting the reelection chances of President Obama against his likely Republican opponents Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
When lawmakers agreed to another postponement of the Medicare payment rate, physicians both breathed a sigh of relief and clenched their teeth in frustration. There had been so much optimism that this time Congress would repeal the sustainable growth rate formula. Now doctors are looking at continuing the fight instead of moving on to other issues, like payment reform.
The American College of Cardiology, a 40,000-member nonprofit medical society, has issued a statement supporting the federal government's decision to delay Stage 2 meaningful use.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded a $78M contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to provide enterprise remote identity proofing and multi-factor authentication credential services.