Ohio news and information

Arkansas lawmakers gave final approval to the governor's plan to use new federal Medicaid funding to buy private coverage in insurance exchanges. Now it's likely to draw intense federal scrutiny.
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Michigan Health Connect and Ohio's CliniSync will help physicians send medical records across the state border through encrypted e-mails. Patients from Michigan who receive medical care in Ohio—or vice versa—can have records sent to the physician providing treatment.
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California on Wednesday became the fifth state to win approval of a CMS demonstration project that will put beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid into managed-care plans.
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ISHPEMING, Mich.—LifePoint Hospitals, Brentwood, Tenn., forged its second deal in Michigan in less than a week as the company seeks to build a presence in the state's Upper Peninsula. The publicly traded system made its first purchase in Michigan last year when it acquired Marquette...
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Northeast Ohio Medical University and Hiram College signed an agreement Tuesday that will allow the two Portage County-based institutions to work together to produce new physicians.
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The Christ Hospital Health Network board of directors today announced Mike Keating as the organization's president and CEO.
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If Texas Gov. Rick Perry is feeling pressure to expand healthcare coverage to more than 1.5 million people under Medicaid, he sure isn't showing it.
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Unlike in earlier rounds of budget brinkmanship, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans both seem content to fight out their latest showdown on the current terrain, let across-the-board spending cuts take effect on March 1 and allow them to stay in place for weeks if not much longer.
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CLEVELAND—The Cleveland Clinic has agreed to share electronic records through the state of Ohio's CliniSync electronic medical-record exchange system, said Dan Paoletti, CEO of the Ohio Health Information Partnership, which runs CliniSync. University Hospitals announced a similar...
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Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio, and Catholic Health Partners, Cincinnati, have signed a letter of intent to form a strategic partnership.
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