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Obama blankets airwaves to push for health reform

President Barack Obama's blitz across the Sunday talk shows to advocate for health overhaul legislation dominates news coverage today.

21 Sep 2009

White house offers $25 million for medical malpractice projects

The Obama administration announced $25 million in new grants for pilot programs to explore alternatives to the medical malpractice system.

21 Sep 2009

Doctors discuss defensive medicine and primary care pay

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21 Sep 2009

PCMA statements on mail-service pharmacies

The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) issued the following statement on a consumer “poll” on mail-service pharmacies released today by the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).

19 Sep 2009

Mark Farrah develops new database tool for comparative analysis of Medicare Advantage and PDP benefit packages

In a recent customer update, Mark Farrah Associates confirmed that Medicare Advantage membership continues to climb, prior to the 2010 open enrollment season.

19 Sep 2009

Health Net is the national sponsor of the 2nd National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic

Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT) is honored to serve as a national sponsor of the 2nd National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic, to be held Sept. 20–25, 2009, in San Diego.

19 Sep 2009

Texas attemps to offer access to quality dialysis care

Local officials, physicians and patients in need of local dialysis care expressed encouragement over what appears to be a thawing of a certification logjam of dialysis facilities across the state of Texas, though remain concerned over 38 which still remain idling to many for more than a year – to the detriment of local jobs and patients in dire need of better access to quality dialysis care.

18 Sep 2009

Analysis project inflation rates for healthcare supplies to remain unchanged through 2010

Inflation rates for healthcare supplies are projected to remain unchanged through 2010, according to an analysis released by the Premier healthcare alliance.

18 Sep 2009

NAHCA says Medicare cuts to providers will undermine seniors' care

At a news conference during its annual National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA) convention, America's front-line nursing home caregivers gathered to urge Congress to significantly scale back attempts to cut seniors' Medicare benefits in any final health reform bill, and said arguments being made that funding reductions to providers will not harm the quality of care provided to seniors is flatly incorrect.

18 Sep 2009

InSight's fourth quarter 2009 revenues decreases by 17.3% year-on-year

InSight Health Services Holdings Corp. (“InSight”) (OTCBB: ISGT) today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2009.

18 Sep 2009

UHC's Clinical Documentation Audit Profile assists hospitals with RAC reviews

University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) has announced the development of the Clinical Documentation Audit Profile, designed to assist hospitals with Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) reviews.

18 Sep 2009

Premier Purchasing Partners offers agreements for bulk oxygen

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18 Sep 2009

NCPA and AADE collaborate to provide DSME/T program for community pharmacies

The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) today announced a partnership that will expand counseling options for patients while offering community pharmacies a path to be compensated by Medicare and other insurers for diabetes management.

18 Sep 2009

CCS Advantage program's performance measures validated by Milliman

MedAssurant, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, announced today that Milliman, Inc., has validated the calculations of several performance measures for MedAssurant’s CCS Advantage program, and confirmed the calculated values of medical cost for Medicare patients with chronic illness in the study population.

18 Sep 2009

Many industry groups favor Baucus plan

Media reports find a generally positive response from industry to the health overhaul bill released Wednesday by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.

18 Sep 2009

Republican wish list has stark differences and surprising similarities to Democratic proposals

The Republican leadership lacks a flagship health reform plan, but a variety of ideas and proposals have emerged from rank-and-file members that outline the party's reform principles, Kaiser Health News reports.

18 Sep 2009

Summa Health System responds to healthcare reform

As the health insurance reform debate continues in Washington, D.C. and around the country, Summa Health System provides the following response to the latest developments in the debate and the potential impact on Summa. As a system, Summa continues to inform the debate by sharing its perspective on various policy changes and urges adoption of policies that would impact its patients' health in a positive way, including efforts to expand affordable health insurance to those without coverage.

18 Sep 2009

Health bill fails to address the root cause of national health collapse: Earth Intelligence Network

Robert David STEELE Vivas, CEO, Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 Public Charity chartered in the Commonwealth of Virginia, has released a single graphic showing Health Policy Fundamentals, three quarters of which are being ignored by both proponents and detractors of the new national health bill.

18 Sep 2009

Obama to student audience: Health reform is 'defining struggle of this generation'

"Calling health insurance reform a 'defining struggle of this generation,' President Barack Obama told thousands of college students Thursday that Congress must resist scare tactics and false accusations to do a makeover."

18 Sep 2009

Consumer Watchdog urges California Attorney General to investigate insurers' employee programs

As the House Subcommittee on Domestic Policy reconvenes hearings today on the bureaucratic abuse of insured patients by for-profit insurance companies, Consumer Watchdog called on the nation's two largest insurers to answer questions about their use of employees to lobby Congress on company time.

18 Sep 2009