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Democrats and Republicans played another game of political tennis this week when House Republicans served up another vote to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Democrats returned a litany of reasons why the 2010 law is good for Americans.
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With a $2.1 million federal grant, Ohio will expand a database for background checks allowing healthcare companies to be immediately notified if workers have been convicted of a crime that would ban them from the job.
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Republican governors backing an expansion of Medicaid continue to hit headwinds in those efforts, and it is unclear what lessons can be drawn from the outcomes experienced by two of their colleagues.
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The MetroHealth System's second go-around at finding a new boss ended Wednesday afternoon when the hard-pressed Cleveland health system introduced Dr. Akram Boutros, founder and president of a New York-based healthcare consulting firm, as president and CEO.
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New Medicaid research that garnered widespread attention from national health policy experts has not yet affected the expansion debate at the state level, but it could bolster national policy changes in the program.
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As states and the federal government work feverishly toward having health insurance exchanges ready for enrollment by Oct. 1, much of the discussion has focused on technology readiness, guidance from the CMS and competition from insurers. But one crucial element not brought up as often but still...
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The debate over whether Ohio should make healthcare coverage available to more low-income residents has been framed largely by numbers and dollar signs.
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COLUMBIA, Mo.—The University of Missouri Health System recently opened a $190 million expansion to University Hospital. The 310,500-square-foot addition includes a 100,000-square-foot replacement for its Ellis Fischel Cancer Center on two of the towers' eight floors. The building has...
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Sympathetic statements by a doctor over a patient's unexpected medical outcome can't be admitted as evidence in medical malpractice cases filed after the date a law intended to outlaw their use went into effect in 2004, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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A former Cleveland Clinic nurse accused of trying to hire an emergency room patient to kill a woman pleaded guilty Thursday in a murder-for-hire plot.
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