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Choice of healthcare provider often ranks second only to cost when consumers choose a health insurance plan. But for visitors to the new federally facilitated and state-run insurance exchanges, their ability to...
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Federal officials say they have identified and can fix the biggest flaws in their online insurance marketplace after an inaugural week marked by system outages and long wait times.
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Seattle Children's Hospital is seeking a court order that would remove two health plans from the new state insurance exchange because the plans don't include the hospital in their provider network.
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Full-service hospital operators long have viewed specialty providers with suspicion. But they increasingly are adopting the philosophy of, “If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.”
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The House moved to restart funding for the National Institutes of Health and some other popular government services Wednesday, but Republican and Democratic congressional leaders left the White House later without any path forward to end the government shutdown entering its third day.
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As the nation faced Day 1 of the government shutdown, healthcare leaders pondered the effects of the budget impasse on patients, providers, researchers and public health programs.
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What it does: Edifecs is a healthcare information technology company dedicated to ensuring data security for healthcare organizations. It develops software facilitating the safe and efficient exchange of patient information to more than 250 healthcare organizations nationwide, including most...
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Of the more than 8,000 physicians licensed to work in the nation's capital, only 453 of them are primary-care doctors who spend more than 20 hours a week seeing patients, according to a report released Wednesday by the D.C. Board of Medicine.
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A hospital official says a police officer and two civilians wounded in the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard are expected to survive.
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The first construction projects with designs influenced by the healthcare-specific standards under the LEED program are just now being certified, with a Texas children's hospital leading the way.
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