Otis Bowen, who overhauled Indiana's tax system as governor before helping oversee the federal response to the burgeoning AIDS epidemic during President Ronald Reagan's second term, has died. He was 95. FULL STORY »
The Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis has agreed to license its Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a new for-profit subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. FULL STORY »
Congressional investigators say pharmacy boards in nearly all 50 states lack the information and expertise to oversee specialty pharmacies like the one tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak last year. FULL STORY »
Governors continue to make pilgrimages to HHS as states keep trying to craft custom versions of the healthcare reform law's Medicaid expansion and avoid leaving new federal funding on the table. FULL STORY »
Regarding “Don't tie Medicaid to ER discharge diagnoses: researchers,” In Indiana, we went to managed Medicaid some 10 years ago. I am the UM (utilization management) manager for 14,500 Medicaid lives in our capitated program. FULL STORY »
The Food and Drug Administration is warning doctors that a compounding pharmacy is recalling dozens of lots of the Roche drug Avastin after receiving reports of eye infections among patients. FULL STORY »
State lawmakers aren't sure whether they will expand Medicaid coverage, but if they do, they support at least one new tool to help healthcare providers care for the expected influx of new patients: telemedicine. FULL STORY »
A study that looked at scope-of-practice laws in six states concluded that the laws don't restrict the breadth of primary-care services that nurse practitioners offer patients, but the laws still affect payer policies which then curtail how and where NPs can practice. FULL STORY »
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