There are blue-ribbon commissions and task forces in Virginia government that have done little more than huddle in conference rooms and pack hundreds of pages of dense bureaucratic jargon into binders set on backroom bookshelves or in forgotten archives boxes. There they gather dust for generations. FULL STORY »
By Chris Tomlinson, Associated Press | March 02, 2013
If Texas Gov. Rick Perry is feeling pressure to expand healthcare coverage to more than 1.5 million people under Medicaid, he sure isn't showing it. FULL STORY »
Fewer seniors died in hospitals during the past decade and the use of hospice increased, but more elderly were also hospitalized within a month of dying or moved within days of death, research shows. FULL STORY »
Some California healthcare providers first reacted positively to Gov. Jerry Brown's $98 billion budget proposal, which called for the state to contribute an additional $350 million to Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program. But a closer look also showed that Brown is going forward with a plan to... FULL STORY »
Ohio is prepared to move forward with certain Medicaid contracts after a court ruled in the state's favor in a dispute over how the contracts were awarded. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | December 13, 2012
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Sutter Health, a 24-hospital not-for-profit system based in Sacramento, Calif., named Stephen Nolte CEO of its health plan, which is under development and is expected to begin marketing HMO products next fall. FULL STORY »
Medicare and Medicaid cuts should be included in a grand bargain that cuts future federal deficits by $4 trillion over the next 10 years, Assistant Majority Leader Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in an address to a liberal advocacy group. FULL STORY »
Four San Francisco hospitals, a physicians group and a managed-care organization have entered into an accountable care agreement targeting healthcare for University of California employees who live or work in the surrounding Bay Area. FULL STORY »
You'd think health insurance CEOs would be chilling the bubbly with Republican Mitt Romney's improved election prospects, but instead they're in a quandary. FULL STORY »
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