The Week in Healthcare news and information

Amid looming shortages in healthcare workers, one branch of the federal government is ramping up aggressive efforts to keep some of them far away from patients.
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During a week otherwise consumed by partisan knife fights over White House scandals and yet another House vote to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 91 senators agreed that Marilyn Tavenner is equipped to run the CMS. Tavenner, 61, a former nurse and hospital executive for...
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It's different this time. That's what the bulls say when stock prices soar as a way of discounting warnings that what goes up must always come down.
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A bad week for HHS turned progressively worse as a maelstrom of controversies swirling around the Obama administration now threatens to distract federal officials from effectively implementing the 2010 healthcare overhaul.
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Celebrities drive average Americans to want what they have. That powerful impulse can even influence grave healthcare decisions and could prove complicated for women who fear they're at high risk for breast cancer after Angelina Jolie's disclosure that she underwent a preventive double...
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Legislators on both sides of the aisle and on both sides of Capitol Hill are touting their early start on overhauling the Medicare physician payment system. However, those claims of progress will soon run into hard realities: No one has yet come up with a concrete plan to address the biggest...
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Editor's note: As CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C., Michael Tarwater leads one of the largest public hospital systems in the U.S. and faces carrying out its mission in two states that have shunned the coverage expansions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With...
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Financial executives will gather next month in Orlando, Fla., at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute to discuss the continuing reverberations from healthcare reform.
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Raymond Fletcher returned from 2½ years of service in the Vietnam War as a U.S. Army helicopter medic in 1974 and started his post-military career working for Chase Manhattan. But he quickly realized that nursing offered the best chance to use his battleground experiences.
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Former President Bill Clinton may be the headliner at the May 18-22 American Psychiatric Association convention in San Francisco, but the release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as DSM-5, will steal the show.
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