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SEIU keeps Kaiser workers in second showdown with Calif. rival
By Ashok Selvam | May 03, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The upstart National Union of Healthcare Workers failed for a second time to win the prize of representing 45,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in California.
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Calif. bills to expand roles of non-physicians pass first committee test
By Capital Public Radio | May 01, 2013
Three California measures that would expand the roles of nonphysicians working in primary care easily passed their first committee test Monday.
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Calif. medical board backs prescription drug reforms
By Associated Press | April 27, 2013
The Medical Board of California is backing measures to combat prescription drug abuse in the wake of a report that found a link between physician-prescribed narcotics and overdose deaths.
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Regional News/West: Fewer California employers offering healthcare coverage, and other news
By Modern Healthcare | April 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
OAKLAND, Calif.— The percentage of California employers that offer healthcare coverage to their employees has plummeted in the past decade. In 2012, 60% of California employers offered coverage to their employees, down from 71% in 2002, according to a survey by the California...
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Medical Board of California could lose investigative powers
By Los Angeles Times | April 26, 2013
The Medical Board of California would be stripped of its power to investigate physician misconduct under a sweeping reform plan by legislators who say the agency has struggled to hold problem doctors accountable.
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Ensign Group announces tentative settlement in overbilling allegations
By Beth Kutscher | April 22, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Ensign Group, Mission Viejo, Calif., has earmarked $48 million toward a tentative settlement agreement with the U.S. Justice Department that would resolve allegations that it overbilled Medicare.
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Calif. medical group partnering with UCSF | A new HMO is also in the works.
By Ashok Selvam | April 17, 2013
Pacific Partners Management Services and its 803-physician Individual Practice Association Medical Group of Santa Clara County have agreed to collaborate with UCSF Medical Center and create an integrated healthcare system in the San Francisco area, according to a news release.
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Noble promoted to executive VP, COO at Huntington Memorial
By Rachel Landen | April 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Jim Noble has been promoted from senior VP and CFO to executive VP, COO/CFO of Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. Effective immediately, Noble is in charge of Huntington's acute operations, information technology, finance, ambulatory services and physician strategies.
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Calif. docs lobby to reduce healthcare labor shortage, leaving out nurses, others
By Sacramento Business Journal | April 17, 2013
The Calif. doctors lobby rolled out a package of five bills Tuesday to address the physician shortage in California without allowing optometrists, pharmacists, nurse practitioners and physician assistants to expand the services they can offer patients.
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Kickbacks alleged at spine hospital
By Wall Street Journal | April 17, 2013
A U.S. attorney in California is investigating allegations that a hospital executive paid kickbacks to physicians so they would refer their patients for spine surgery at his facility.
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