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2010 was a tough year to be a state Medicaid director.
Fueled by dramatic gains in the Nov. 2 elections, the GOP vows to fight back
A Virginia federal district judge has ruled in favor of the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law.
The emergency department information system market, worth $110 million in 2010, will grow by more than 30 percent in 2011, according to the Millennium Research Group, a global authority on medical technology market intelligence.
The University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle have been named "Top Hospitals of the Decade" by The Leapfrog Group.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has launched a "shared incentive" payment model with four of Minnesota's largest care systems. The model modifies fee-for-service payments to reward quality of care and innovative methods of delivering cost-effective care.
The Wisconsin Health Information Organization is working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to release CMS' Medicare data and add the information to its WHIO Health Analytics Exchange, according to executive director Julie Bartels.
A Connecticut-based developer of radiology tools is donating its solutions to qualifying medical schools with accredited radiologic technologist training programs.
Members of the Service Employees International Union's United Healthcare Workers-West (SEIU-UHW) will go on strike Friday at five Hospital Corporation of America hospitals in California in an effort to target what they call unfair labor practices by the national company.
Two Kentucky-based companies, Humana and Norton Healthcare, are launching the region's first commercial Accountable Care Organization.