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The House investigated yesterday the impact of proposed antitrust legislation that, if passed, could impact the way community pharmacies negotiate for drug pricing on the back end....
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Robert Casey (D-Pa.) yesterday introduced legislation to prevent the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service from making further cuts to home healthcare providers' re...
A bid to override President Bush's veto of a bill to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program failed in the House today, as override supporters fell at least 12 votes shy of a two-thirds m...
People find paying a standard monthly fee and an upfront co-pay for visits attractive because they feel that they are losing less money and are motivated to keep visit for reimbursement, a new study o...
WASHINGTON - President Bush today defended his decision to veto bipartisan legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program. "I don't like plans that encourage people to move from p...
Seattle-based OCS has announced the release of The Home Health Financial Monitor, a collection of financial reporting and analysis products for home healthcare executives. Among the p...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on Oct. that 11 it will conduct a home health pay-for-performance (P4P) demonstration that will be a precursor to a permanent nationwide ho...
Sen. John McCain ( R-Ariz.) joined the ranks of presidential hopefuls on both sides of the aisle who are coming up to bat on what pollsters have determined is the nation's second most important domest...
Palisades Medical Center executives overreacted when they suspended doctors and nurses who took a sneak peek at movie and TV star George Clooney's medical records during his recent stay at the hospita...
Voluntary employee benefit associations, or VEBAs, have been around since the late 1920s, but the size of General Motors' contribution to the healthcare trusts for the United Auto Workers, or UAW, is...