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A new social media resource is aimed at preventing physician stress and burnout.
Florida Governor Rick Scott wants to rein in state spending and has proposed using Medicaid as the major tool with which to fill in its $2 billion shortfall.
Politicians commonly obscure facts about healthcare reform as they battle through election campaigns. Government Health IT Editor Tom Sullivan takes a close look at how these distortions affect Americans' views on reform.
Anecdotally, it is believed within the healthcare community that doctors are leaving Medicare in greater and greater numbers. A new report by the Office of Inspector General has found that there is not enough data available to make any determinations about this trend.
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to block long-term care pharmacy services company OmniCare Inc.'s hostile takeover attempt of rival PharMerica Corp.
Driven by increased revenue pressures and challenges resulting from the transition to a new healthcare delivery model as a result of national healthcare reform, the outlook for the U.S. not-for-profit healthcare sector remains negative for 2012, says Moody's Investors Service in a new report.
Acting CMS leader Marilyn Tavenner pushes for better care, better health and lower costs in her speech at the Care Innovations Summit on Thursday.
Florida trails most states on healthcare reform, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.
Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, expressed urgency in pressing forward with the "triple aim" goals of better individual health care, better population health and lower costs called for in the health reform law and translated into initiatives by her predecessor.
The healthcare industry is making progress but is being held back by a broken political structure, said American College of Physicians leadership Thursday in a live web broadcast reviewing its State of the Nation's Health Care report.