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L.A. Care Health Plan has launched a two-year pilot program designed to transform 11 healthcare practices into patient centered medical homes.
Subsidiaries of long-term care giant Kindred Healthcare have signed an agreement to acquire Signature Health Services, LLC, a home health company in Ohio.
The Cardinal Health Foundation of Dublin, Ohio, has announced a call for entries for its E3 Grant Program, offering more than $1 million in grant funding to help U.S. hospitals, health systems and community Health clinics improve the efficiency and quality of care.
McKesson has bolstered its cancer care platform with the purchase of US Oncology, a Woodlands, Texas-based developer of clinical tools, guidelines and care pathways for doctors and others in the field of cancer-related healthcare.
A Connecticut state senator and a union-backed labor group are calling on Gov. Jodi Rell to dismiss Insurance Commissioner Thomas R. Sullivan for what they contend is politically motivated lax oversight of health insurers in the state.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research says 3 million Californians are enrolled in high-deductible health plans - which are often the only insurance the self-employed or those with low incomes can afford.
A patient recruiter for a Houston-based home healthcare company has pled guilty in connection with a $5.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
Anthem Blue Cross has announced the launch of a new website in California designed to provide reliable, up-to-the-minute information to women about health issues specific to them.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is weighing what quality measures to use for a website it is developing to help consumers compare physicians, an offering that is required under the health reform law enacted earlier this year.
The Johns Hopkins Health System is acquiring Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., a move designed to boost the Baltimore-based health system's exposure in the nation's capital and give Sibley some much-needed resources and financial stability.