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Public health experts at Harvard and the University of Minnesota are warning that H1N1 will threaten most businesses in America as the flu spreads and more people miss work.
Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., has received a $150 million gift from the government of Abu Dhabi for the creation of a new pediatric surgery institute.
Seniors in Medicare Advantage spent fewer days in a hospital and had fewer hospital re-admissions, according to an analysis by America's Health Insurance Plans.
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose to $13,375 for family coverage this year.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed a bundled prospective payment system for facilities that provide dialysis services to Medicare beneficiaries who have end-stage renal disease.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index found that Americans' confidence in their health insurance coverage and access to healthcare dropped slightly in August.
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 63 percent of physicians surveyed support a health reform proposal that includes both a public option and traditional private insurance.
Athenahealth, Inc., a provider of Internet-based business services to physician practices, has launched a program guaranteeing that physicians who use its EHR service will receive a HITECH Act bonus payment under the 2011 program year.
The National Community Pharmacists Association has asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to suspend the Medicare Part B durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies accreditation requirement scheduled for Oct. 1.
Catholic Health Initiatives, a 20-hospital national nonprofit healthcare organization, is using Intelligent Optical Character Recognition technology to convert paper-based medical bills and payments into electronic accounting records.