Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) news and information

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After the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last week on the healthcare reform law, providers and payers can resume their focus on pending federal regulations. But they shouldn't hold their breath that HHS will release those rules before the November elections.
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Healthcare payment reform is needed for the patient-centered medical-home model to be sustainable, according to a report published online by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The traditional separation between primary-care providers and public-health professionals is impeding efforts to ensure the health of populations, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine, which made five broad recommendations to improve the situation.
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Expanding the number of providers and pharmacies that are eligible to participate in a federal drug discount program has led to increased congressional scrutiny and a move by some insurers and pharmacy benefit managers to capture a share of the savings traditionally reserved for the participating...
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Health Resources and Services Administration Administrator Mary Wakefield on Monday announced that her agency and the U.S. Labor Department have signed an agreement to use existing resources at community colleges and technical colleges to support the training of health information technology...
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In an effort to measure, develop and predict future needs for the nation's HIV primary-care clinician workforce, HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration is proposing to conduct a two-year study that will help provide national and state-level projections of the workforce through 2015.
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National security, cybersecurity and health information technology consulting and services contractor SRA International, Fairfax, Va., has been awarded a contract by HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration to support the National Practitioner Data Bank and the Healthcare Integrity and...
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Science Applications International Corp., McLean, Va., was awarded a blanket purchase agreement by HHS to develop and service various data systems for the Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau Reporting Systems.
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Last-minute negotiations before Congress' scheduled Christmas recess produced a funding package for much of the federal government, including a decrease for HHS. But at deadline, lawmakers had failed to reach a deal averting a 27.4% Medicare physician pay cut.
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