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Low-income Pennsylvanians living in personal care homes have received an increase in personal needs allowance from the state for the first time since 1993.
Employment at U.S. hospitals climbed 0.14 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted 4,719,300 people, according to a federal Bureau of Labor Statistics issued last week.
New Hampshire's nonprofit community hospitals provided more than $360 million in direct patient care services and outreach in 2007, according to a report by the New Hampshire Hospital Association.
Nonfarm payroll employment in the United States continued to fall sharply in February 2009, and the national unemployment rate rose from 7.6 percent to 8.1 percent, according to a report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Health Systems Solutions, Inc., reeling from the collapse of a planned merger and an international fraud investigation of its principal investor, has announced it will deregister its common stock and stop filing reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Surgical Care Affiliates, one of the country's largest providers of specialty surgical services, is teaming with Hawaii Pacific Health to build and operate a new outpatient surgery center in Honolulu.
President Barack Obama released a healthcare reform report Thursday through the Department of Health and Human Services that summarizes more than 3,000 neighborhood discussions held nationwide last December.
Two physician-class-action lawsuits have been filed against Aetna Health, Inc. and the CIGNA Corporation.
The lawsuits, filed by the American Medical Association, several state medical associations and individual physicians, claim the companies used skewed data provided by UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Ingenix to under-reimburse physicians.
Healthcare financing appears to be a big waiting game in early 2009.
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