They may account for only 4% of the 113th Congress, but the 20 physician members will wield big influence over the reform law and other issues. See who they are and where they stand.
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First, do no harm. In the practice of medicine, that's the prime directive physicians are charged to live by. But it truly applies to all healthcare providers and certainly administrators.
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Teresa Pasquini, one of the most influential people involved in the management of Contra Costa County Regional Medical Center, has no training in healthcare, doesn't collect a paycheck from the publicly owned safety net hospital and has a history of animosity toward the local healthcare system.
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Anticipating a critical national TV news report, Health Management Associates rejected allegations that the hospital chain improperly admitted patients from its emergency rooms.
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Republican lawmakers introduced legislation that aims to resolve drug shortages by changing the way that generic sterile injectable drugs are reimbursed and offering brand-name drug manufacturers incentives to enter the market when drugs are in short supply. The bill drew praise from the Community...
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They may account for only 4% of the 113th Congress, but the 20 physician members will wield big influence over the reform law and other issues. See who they are and where they stand.
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HHS' inspector general's office said it found a number of “obstacles” to the proper oversight of the multibillion-dollar Medicare electronic health-record incentive payment program.
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Cook County Health and Hospitals System garnered some unusual attention recently in Washington. And it is the kind of notice hospitals are eager for as post-election fighting over federal spending ramps up.
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A controversial hospital quality grading system created by the employer-backed Leapfrog Group was again criticized by a portion of the industry after Leapfrog released its second round of grades last week, this time with the names of hospitals receiving a D or an F.
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Giving a local government the power to buy a hospital is not the same thing as granting it the authority to establish a regional monopoly on acute care, lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last week as they tried to undo a $200 million hospital acquisition...
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The mandate that most employers offer insurance coverage to their workers, even if they morally oppose some of the plan offerings, is at the heart of a revived constitutional challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Manufacturers and patient advocates say providers should inform women if they have dense breast tissue and in many cases offer supplemental breast cancer screening methods for these patients, but some radiologists are pressing for more data about the practices.
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Afraid that applications for a demonstration program for Medicare and Medicaid enrollees don't ensure access and proper care for the mentally ill, behavioral-health groups created their own proposal.
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Teresa Pasquini, one of the most influential people involved in the management of Contra Costa County Regional Medical Center, has no training in healthcare, doesn't collect a paycheck from the publicly owned safety net hospital and has a history of animosity toward the local healthcare system.
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First, do no harm. In the practice of medicine, that's the prime directive physicians are charged to live by. But it truly applies to all healthcare providers and certainly administrators.
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“It sounds impossibly optimistic, but it may be true: The end of AIDS could be near. The wider use of effective drugs, more treatment for stigmatized groups, and a slow and steady growth of healthcare efforts are all paying off. The results are by no means even—some parts of the world...
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A list of all 50 states ranked by total number of those not covered by health insurance during 2011. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2012 Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Published Dec. 3, 2012, p. 38.
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Outliers noticed that a construction firm has announced plans to build the world's tallest building in Changsha, China, in only 90 days' time, using new techniques.
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Nurses are demanding an apology from TV host Jon Stewart after they say he disrespected school nurses and discounted their qualifications on “The Daily Show.”
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“There are lots of places doing lots of injections for conditions that haven't been shown to benefit. Sadly, some of the patients who got meningitis were probably in that category—they did not have conditions where steroid injections were indicated.”
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