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House Republicans moved to divert money from the healthcare reform law's prevention and public health fund to shore up a program the law created to give temporary relief to Americans who can't otherwise afford health insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
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The Scooter Store, a company that supplies power wheelchairs and scooters, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Federal agents raided the firm's headquarters earlier this year.
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Healthcare organizations' highest priorities for cybersecurity should include use of cryptography, isolation of highly sensitive information and creation of a reporting system for breach events to meet what is being described as a rising threat by data and identity thieves, according to an early...
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Seton Healthcare Family, an Austin, Texas-based division of Ascension Health, named Jesus Garza CEO, effective July 1. Garza, 60, will also start providing oversight of Ascension's Arizona ministry, Carondelet Health Network, and continue serving as the ministry market leader for Ascension...
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Seton Healthcare Family, a not-for-profit healthcare provider based in Austin, Texas, and a member of Ascension Health, has named Jesus Garza its CEO, effective July 1.
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When the doctors at University of Texas Medical Branch are reading an ultrasound, examining an X-ray or evaluating an echocardiogram, the patient they are treating is not necessarily right in front of them.
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What goes down, sometimes also comes back up. And that worries Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), a physician representing the northwest suburbs of Dallas who co-chairs the Congressional Health Caucus and is vice chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's health subcommittee.
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House GOP leaders released a revised proposal to replace Medicare's SGR physician payment formula with a system that includes specialty-specific performance measures.
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Plano, Texas-based Medhost, which provides healthcare throughput and emergency department software, has named Barbara Bryan its VP of consulting.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida hospital officials are lobbying lawmakers to expand Medicaid coverage to roughly 1 million residents under the federal healthcare law. A rally last week in Tallahassee came a day after a Senate panel voted against traditional Medicaid expansion and instead...
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