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A Commonwealth Fund survey on the individual insurance market revealed that high premiums, lack of needed coverage and pre-existing conditions have kept many Americans from purchasing individual policies.
A five-year pay-for-performance project involving 10 large physician practices across the country has shown increased revenue savings and improved quality of care.
Not-for-profit hospital medians for fiscal year 2008 show a weakening of credit measures across all major ratios and all broad rating categories, says Moody's Investors Service in a new report.
A new report by the Institute for America's Future finds regulation of the private health insurance industry alone will not be sufficient in helping to provide affordable coverage for all Americans.
A new report highlights problems that leave seniors paying high costs for their healthcare and outlines how health insurance reform will strengthen Medicare and protect coverage for seniors.
A new Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert urges healthcare leaders to boost their efforts to prevent medical errors by taking the zero-defect approach used in other high-risk industries such as aviation and nuclear energy.
MN Community Measurement has published new information about how much Minnesota's medical groups are paid to provide more than 100 common healthcare services.
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued a report this week saying that H1N1 – also know as the swine flu – will likely infect enough people to overwhelm doctors' offices and hospitals.
A Detroit-area physical therapist has pled guilty to conspiring to defraud the Medicare program of approximately $1.6 million.
In two separate letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the American Hospital Association has recommended changes to the 2010 proposed Medicare payment rates, specifically in regard to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System, the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System and the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule.