Massachusetts news and information

The Boston Public Health Commission has backed off its request for bombing victims' medical records, after three Boston police, fire and EMS unions accused the agency of trying to breach doctor-patient confidentiality.
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LOS ANGELES—Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health agreed to pay $14.1 million to resolve allegations that it improperly compensated physicians who referred patients to the system's White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. White Memorial also agreed to enter a five-year corporate...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Cambridge Health Alliance and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston agreed to form a clinical and academic affiliation. Cambridge Health Alliance, operated by a public authority established by the state Legislature in 1996, is composed of Cambridge...
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West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's decision to open Medicaid to more low-income West Virginians was reached neither quickly nor easily, administration officials say.
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Connecticut hospitals would win big under the CMS' latest update of its controversial rural-floor policy. The latest agency calculations project hospitals in the state will see a $75 million boost in fiscal 2014, compared to $16.7 million in the current fiscal year.
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A total of 264 people injured in last week's bomb attack at the Boston Marathon were treated at 26 hospitals in the days following the attack, the Boston Public Health Commission said on Tuesday. Three people died in the attack.
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In a rebuttal to the terrorists and a tribute to stellar medical care, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive.
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For public health officials across the country, the Boston Marathon bombing and the blast at a Texas fertilizer plant last week served as a wake-up call: How would their communities cope?
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Lifting days of anxiety for a city and a nation on edge, police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat Friday night less than 24 hours after a wild car chase and gun battle that left his older brother dead and Boston and its suburbs sealed in an...
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Once again, a senseless act of violence has upended any notion that the war on terror will someday end and a sense of normalcy will return to national life.
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