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Healthcare providers in Texas could soon collect or verify patient information by swiping a driver's license. The measure is one of a handful that the Texas Medical Association is pushing this legislative session to help modernize medical practices.
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A Texas newspaper's review of documents related to about three-dozen deaths at state-run mental health hospitals between 2005 and 2012 raises the question about the need for more oversight.
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HOUSTON—Catholic Health Initiatives will acquire six-hospital St. Luke's Episcopal Health System in Houston, pending regulatory approvals. The Texas Episcopal Diocese approved the definitive agreement, which includes a $1 billion investment from Englewood, Colo.-based CHI. CHI will...
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The Texas Legislature has been balancing the state's budget by intentionally paying doctors 40 to 75 percent less for Medicaid patients than what private insurers pay for the same treatment. Doctors generally plan to do some charity work, but more and more physicians are reaching their limit,...
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I'm afraid I have to respectfully disagree with your Top 25 Women in Healthcare (“Beyond the glass ceiling,” April 8). While these may be the choices of the industry itself, it negates the influence of...
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Physicians from St. Luke's Episcopal Health System filed a motion April 19 in the Court of Appeals of Texas to halt the sale of the Houston health system to Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives.
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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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Ben Patton may be smart, good-looking and successful, but the head of Integrity Transitional Hospital in Denton, Texas, decided to call in the experts when it came to dating.
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Catholic Health Initiatives will acquire six-hospital St. Luke's Episcopal Health System in Houston, pending regulatory approvals, according to a news release.
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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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