District of Columbia news and information

CACI International has been awarded a $45 million prime contract to provide certain operations and maintenance support services for the National Institutes of Health.
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Healthcare accreditation association URAC has named William Vandervennet Jr. as COO and Vernon Rowen as senior VP of external and legal affairs.
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HHS has named Bryan Sivak, currently Maryland's chief innovation officer, as chief technology officer.
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Dr. Lois Margaret Nora, interim president and dean of the Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pa., was named president and CEO of the Chicago-based American Board of Medical Specialties, effective June 29. Nora, 56, will succeed Lloyd Morgan, who has been the organization's...
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George Washington University Hospital, Washington, has named Mary Hopkins as director of health information management systems.
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George Washington University Hospital, Washington, installed Barry Wolfman as CEO and managing director.
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Doctors who treat Washington, D.C., Medicaid patients will no longer be required to give back 20% of their fees earned in 2011 from the program, the District's healthcare finance director announced.
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Two of the nation's largest health systems will receive a combined $355 million for Medicare underpayments to rural hospitals, under the terms of a series of ongoing CMS legal settlements with hospitals nationwide.
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Boulder, Colo., may have more hospital capacity than it needs, but that did not stop construction of a replacement for Boulder Community Hospital with just as many beds as before.
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Members of Congress, who finally returned from holiday break last week, will need to quickly return to some unfinished business—the issues squeezed into the can they again kicked down the road.
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