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With projections for a continued primary-care shortage—especially with the upcoming expansion of patients with new access to healthcare—established providers are growing more worried about who's going to train new primary-care doctors. To help meet the need locally, two Yakima, Wash.,...
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The coming weeks are shaping up to be a big deal for states still on the fence regarding Medicaid expansion.
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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is trying to live up to the first two words in its name. A team of researchers from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has been tapped by PCORI to scale up their prototype of a Web-based crowd-sourcing platform called WellSpringboard, which is...
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One of the insurance industry's medical home experiments has slowed costs and significantly lifted quality scores in its second year of operation, raising hopes for pilot programs initiated under the 2010 healthcare reform legislation.
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Minnesota leaders say their state is well positioned for healthcare reform's focus on new payment models, ramped-up quality reporting and collaborative approaches to care.
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Since 2003, Modern Healthcare and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society have jointly sponsored the CEO IT Achievement Awards to honor leaders of healthcare organizations at the forefront of adopting the electronic...
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Responding to a steady stream of criticism that health insurance exchanges will offer few options along with high premiums, the Obama administration predicted a shot of competition in many areas.
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Wall Street investors hungry for advance information on upcoming federal health-care decisions repeatedly held private discussions with Obama administration officials, including a top White House adviser helping to implement the Affordable Care Act.
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The letter faxed to Gloria A. Wilder's Anacostia medical practice was short and to the point: D.C. Chartered Health Plan, the Medicaid contractor that insured roughly three-fourths of her patients, would no longer be paying its claims, effectively immediately.
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Intuitive Surgical convinced a Washington state jury that it wasn't negligent in its training of a doctor who performed a robot-assisted surgery on a patient who later died.
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