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With a Dec. 31 deadline looming for physicians to qualify for bonuses under Medicare's 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, the Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative (PAeHI) is reminding physicians...
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is extending Medicaid coverage for about 34,000 children in the Houston-Beaumont areas over concerns that Hurricane Ike may have disrupted the abil...
The University of Connecticut Health Center and Hartford Hospital are preparing to seek legislative approval in January for a $475 million, 250-bed hospital to replace UConn's John Dempsey Hospital in...
South Florida's Broward Health system has received a gift of more than $4.5 million for the construction of a women's health pavilion at Broward General Medical Center.The Lillian S. Wells Foundati...
Cleveland Clinic chief executive officer Toby Cosgrove, MD, has told employees that the health system has instituted a hiring and salary freeze.The freeze does not affect employees needed for direc...
HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that from January 2008 to July 2008 self-insured medical enrollment grew by 1.6 million, or 2.2 percent, to more than...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week released quality ratings for each of the nation's 15,800 nursing homes that participate in Medicare or Medicaid.For the first time i...
The Commonwealth Fund has launched a new Web site that allows healthcare providers to compare 4,500 hospitals nationwide, track performance over time against numerous benchmarks and download tools...
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, Congress and industry advisors are working to map out an economic stimulus package that will include some funding for healthcare and healthcare IT, acco...
The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System's Faculty Practice will participate in three pay-for-performance (P4P) agreements that will provide financial incentives and support of up to $3.6 mill...