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THERE HAVE BEEN many battles on the community care front in 2008. Some are still unsettled, but for now things have slowed down.Just before the turn of the year, the Medicare, Medicaid and SC...
CLEVELAND, OH – Medical Mutual of Ohio’s several hundred employer groups of 100 or more employees now have access to an interest-free credit card to pay healthcare services within six mont...
What are some healthcare reforms we might see in the early days of the Obama administration? One near-term effort will be an attempt to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance P...
A recent survey by insurance provider Aflac revealed that 86 percent of registered nurses said a hospital's benefit package is one of the top criteria for accepting employment, with 75 percent preferr...
WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to extend healthcare to uninsured Americans will be beneficial to hospitals, medical centers and hospital equipment makers, according to Mo...
King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Alpharma, Inc. have announced a merger agreement under which King will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock of Alpharma for $37 per share in cas...
Many healthcare leaders have a positive eye toward President-elect Barack Obama's nomination of former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) to be the next Department of Health and Human Services Secretary....
FOR VENDORS in the healthcare finance sector, 2008 was perhaps best defined by a blockbuster merger that was announced in March and nearly derailed by financial concerns in September before coming to...
WASHINGTON – As the industry anticipates major changes from Washington, D.C., payers are forging ahead with their own healthcare reforms.Healthcare IT and the introduction of products t...
WASHINGTON – Now that Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States and the Democrats have strengthened their control of Congress, what can hospitals expect from the federal gover...