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After finding the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) guilty of misconduct, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administrative law judge has recommended throwing out the results of the election last fall between the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and the SEIU for representation of 43,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in California.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday proposed standards for the creation of Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OPs), new private consumer governed health insurance plans. CMS also announced rules for how CO-OPs can qualify for $3.8 billion in government loans to help start up these insurance plans.
Employees at healthcare facilities are getting higher pay increases this year than what was predicted last year, says a healthcare compensation study by management consulting firm, the Hay Group.
Lawmakers introduced legislation yesterday designed to reverse a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that will allow middle-class early retirees to qualify for free Medicaid benefits.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices in June 2011 mirrored last month's slow but steady increase, rising 0.1 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Making good on its stated intention to diversify its product mix and revenue streams, Aetna announced today it will acquire account-based health plan administrator PayFlex Holdings for $202 million.
Late last week, Transcept Pharmaceuticals announced that it will reduce its staff by 45 percent after it received notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejecting the re-application for its insomnia medication, Intermezzo.
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office are developing a demonstration project to address the costly problem of frequent preventable inpatient hospitalizations of nursing facility patients.
Healthcare Finance News readers weighed in on what they think is the biggest challenge in forming accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Almost 300 school-based health center programs have been awarded a total of $95 million, announced HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Education Secretary Arne Duncan last week.