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The Republican-led House voted on Wednesday to delay core provisions of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, emboldened by the administration's concession that requiring companies to provide coverage for their workers next year may be too complicated.
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Despite concerns that some providers are lagging in the adoption of EHRs, federal officials plan to stay on schedule in requiring hospitals to meet Stage 2 meaningful-use requirements.
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Two big hospital players in New York reached an agreement to combine operations, creating a system that would be the city's largest.
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About half of the state's primary-care practices are closed to new patients and wait times to see a primary-care physician remain long, according to the results of an annual survey released Monday by the Massachusetts Medical Society.
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Urgent-care centers are more frequently becoming alternative sites for convenient and timely healthcare access, without the downside of interrupted care coordination, according to a qualitative study conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
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Walgreens, the nation's largest drugstore chain, is teaming up with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association on a national campaign to educate the public about state health insurance exchanges.
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It could mean no more having to check up on Mom or Dad every morning: Motion sensors on the wall and a monitor under the mattress one day might automatically alert you to early signs of trouble well before an elderly loved one gets sick or suffers a fall. Research is growing with high-tech gadgets...
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A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday evening to block enforcement of a new Wisconsin law that bans doctors who lack admitting privileges at nearby hospitals from performing abortions.
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Hospitals would get a 1.8% boost in their outpatient Medicare payments next year while the increase for ambulatory surgery centers would total 0.9%, under a proposed rule from the CMS.
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Federal healthcare reform efforts have focused on keeping people out of the hospital and getting them into primary-care offices for preventive care and health management. But some low-income patients strongly prefer going to the hospital for primary care, and they give some good reasons for this.
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