Policy and Legislation
Canadians with chronic conditions face more barriers to the care they need according to survey results released recently by the Commonwealth Fund.
As the country faces a shortage of doctors in the coming decades as the demand for them increases, one Midwestern state has put a number on just how many extra doctors per year it will need to avoid a crisis: 100.
The Department of Health and Human Services granted more than $14 million Thursday to 45 school-based health centers across the country, increasing the number of children served at the centers by nearly 50 percent.
Thanks to groups like the Premier healthcare alliance, federal officials have been kept informed of one of the worst drug shortages impacting U.S. hospitals in recent history.
In advance of today's scheduled Senate subcommittee hearing on the proposed $29.1 billion merger of pharmacy benefit management companies Express Scripts and Medco, three Republican senators have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging them to pay special attention to the dominant position the merged company would have in the mail order pharmacy market.
Everyone who’s looked at the data knows that the cost of Medicare is killing the federal budget.
More than half of all employers said they will continue to offer employer-sponsored health benefits after health reform is fully enacted according to the results of a survey of benefits decisions makers released by GfK Custom Research North America.
Friday was Donald Berwick's last day as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The controversial chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Donald Berwick, MD, announced this week that he will be resigning as of Dec. 2. The reasons behind the decision have started debates around the nation. Here is a recap of how Twitter followers have been responding.
More than 2,400 doctors, nurses and health advocates sent a letter this week to the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius protesting the Institute of Medicine's recommendations to HHS on how to determine an essential health benefits package as mandated under health reform.