2:00 p.m., Fri. - A measure that allows the federal government to make direct loans to students will be paired with the legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system in an effort to both garner additional votes and satisfy the requirements of budgetary reconciliation, House Democrats said after a caucus meeting. ... FULL STORY
2:00 p.m., Fri. - Former Virgin Islands hospital CEO Rodney Miller faces a new criminal charge for allegedly attempting to submit a falsified Navy identification card as evidence during a... ... FULL STORY
The American Hospital Association and state health finance authorities urged House and Senate finance committee leaders to make permanent two temporary stimulus-law incentives that encourage banks to... ... FULL STORY
When examined through the lens of a jobs bill, the current healthcare proposal can only be viewed as an impediment to job creation, at best, or a job killer, at worst. ... FULL STORY
I think it is good the Food and Drug Administration is going to require some “controls” to be built in. However, I hope they don't generate another burdensome amount of paperwork. ... FULL STORY
The government, the media and insurance companies keep telling hospitals and doctors that they over-order and over-prescribe, and that is one big factor in the ever-upward march of healthcare costs. ... FULL STORY
The government does not recognize that there is an inherent under-documentation problem, which leads to under-coding and under-billing. Doctors are not trained to document accurately and completely... ... FULL STORY
As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time—the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every... ... FULL STORY
This is the fourth installment for 2009 of the Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Opinion Leaders Survey. More survey results can be found at the Commonwealth Fund's Web site, commonwealthfund.org.
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Just as in 1993, when the architects of health reform initially took Medicare for granted and then scrambled to address beneficiaries' concerns, Washington finds itself caught up in the fog of...
In its 44-year history, Medicare has been effective at providing access to medical care and predictable coverage for its beneficiaries. Now it’s time for the federal program to use its...
Modern Healthcare is tracking the state and national proposals to expand access to health benefits for the uninsured and underinsured. This section on Modern Healthcare Online will be updated with each new proposal. Submit comments on any or all of the proposals to mheditorial@modernhealthcare.com.
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How is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the stimulus law, affecting project priorities when it comes to healthcare IT? Do the meaningful-use criteria as proposed by the feds really mean anything yet? And what are some of the hottest trends in health IT today? Those are some of the issues addressed in the findings from Modern Healthcare's annual IT survey.
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