Maine news and information

Maine's Republican Gov. Paul LePage on Friday signed a bill authorizing the state to pay off hundreds of millions of dollars owed to Maine's hospitals for Medicaid services, but he remained silent on whether he plans to approve the state's budget or a proposal to expand healthcare coverage under...
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Just over two years ago, IBM's supercomputer Watson appeared on television to trounce expert quiz show contestants on “Jeopardy!” Now, doctors are looking to Watson for answers. The Maine Center for Cancer Medicine is one of two medical groups chosen to test Watson's computing power in...
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Opposition to the healthcare reform Medicaid expansion may be stiffening in one of the least likely regions of the country—New England.
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British drugmaker AstraZeneca plans to spend about $260 million on Omthera Pharmaceuticals, a specialty drug developer with only 14 employees but has a potential treatment for patients who have high levels of fats called triglycerides in their blood.
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Dr. Michael Ciampi took a step this spring that many of his fellow physicians would describe as radical. The family physician stopped accepting all forms of health insurance.
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The Dirigo Health insurance program, established with great fanfare a decade ago as a nationally pioneering program to cover the uninsured, is phasing out of business.
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage and Democratic lawmakers had no change of heart Friday on a bill to repay a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals and expand Medicaid.
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As many state legislative sessions have finished or are nearing completion, advocates of expanding Medicaid eligibility are looking at their next steps.
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Patients in western and southern Maine will lose access to local doctors and hospitals under a “backroom deal” between MaineHealth and the state's largest health insurer, according to an executive at another health system excluded from the arrangement.
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A public official in a small town in Maine claims there are links between the high costs of an electronic health records system and the decision to close tiny St. Andrews Hospital and Healthcare Center in nearby Boothbay Harbor. That may not be the case.
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