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Nancy-Ann DeParle, the new White House healthcare policy czar, says the Obama administration is striving for a bipartisan consensus on healthcare reform.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) announced Tuesday the schedule for a series of roundtables on the financial aspects of healthcare reform.
Most hospitals fail to achieve quality and cost effectiveness standards set by The Leapfrog Group, according to a survey Leapfrog released Wednesday.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that 14 communities have been chosen for the Agency's Care Transitions Project, which seeks to eliminate unnecessary hospital re-admissions.
The National Institutes of Health is promoting a new funding opportunity under the Recovery Act that will support approximately $200 million in large-scale projects in biomedical research and development, public health and healthcare delivery.
HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that more employers are opting for consumer-driven health plans as a way to reduce costs during the economic depression.
About two-thirds of primary care physicians reported in 2004-05 that they couldn't get outpatient mental health services for their patients - a rate that was at least twice as high as for other services, according to a national study funded by the Commonwealth Fund.
Express Scripts, Inc., is boosting its pharmacy benefit management business with the planned acquisition of the WellPoint's NextRx subsidiaries.
McKesson Provider Solutions, has announced that TELCOR, Inc., a provider of outreach information systems like the TELCOR Billing Information System, will partner with McKesson's Revenue Management Solutions group to help clinical and molecular laboratories access billing and practice management solutions.
President Barack Obama has issued executive orders to establish a new White House Office of Health Reform, to be headed by Nancy-Ann DeParle.