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New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed $1.8 billion in cuts to Medicaid and other healthcare spending over the next two years.The proposed cuts are part of Paterson's deficit reduction pla...
U.S. Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, is asking Congress to consider state Medicaid funding in its new economic stimulus package."I am pl...
The Pennsylvania Department of Aging has urged older Pennsylvanians and other Medicare beneficiaries to attend local enrollment meetings designed to help them choose a federal Medicare Part D prescrip...
New York University Langone Medical Center has received two gifts totaling $260 million to support a major expansion of the NYU hospital and medical school campus.Helen L. Kimmel, a long-time...
University of Texas System regents have ordered layoffs of about 3,800 state employees at the UT Medical Branch at Galveston, attributing the action to financial losses stemming from Hurricane Ike....
With 69 days until President-elect Barack Obama takes office, Congressional leaders are gearing up to make sure healthcare reform doesn't slip through the cracks this time.Sen. Max Baucus (D-...
The initial financial impact of Medicare's new Value-based Purchasing initiative will be relatively small for U.S. hospitals in regard to hospital-acquired conditions, according to new research....
Compared to patients in seven other countries, chronically ill adults in the United States are far more likely to forgo care because of costs, according to a new survey conducted by the Commonwealth F...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has revised compensation requirements for sales agents and brokers who sell Medicare Advantage and prescription drug benefit plan options.&quo...
As the U.S. population ages and chronic diseases across all age groups continue to rise dramatically, so does the demand for case management professionals.With registered nurses comprising ap...