Yesterday, CMS announced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act helped 14.3 million Medicare beneficiaries obtain at least one free preventive service so far in 2012.
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Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has completed its seven-year expansion project.
Imagine, for a moment, a hospital that is able to provide its own energy through new renewable energy projects like biofuels and solar power and improved energy efficiency efforts. In other words, the hospital will never have to pay another…
Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola University Health System announced the opening of its new emergency department.
Seventeen states and the Obama Administration have worked together to design an interface to help consumers navigate online state health insurance exchanges, according to a Washington Post report.
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An HHS phone-center program that has provided case management services to more than 200,000 people in 22 states looking for health insurance assistance will receive $2.5 million more in funding, according to an HHS announcement.
Patients' perceptions of the urgency of their condition and the availability and capacity of alternative care providers may contribute to the high number of patients with minor problems visiting the emergency department, according to a study in Emergency Medical Journal.
Beginning with high-deductible health plans and cost sharing models, which started springing up around a decade ago, and continuing to the creation of health insurance exchanges — written into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — consumerism has been…
CMS announced agreements with 44 insurers representing markets in eight states — Arkansas, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Kentucky, Oregon and Oklahoma — that will participate in a multi-payor initiative to foster collaboration between private and public healthcare…
Larry Merlo, CEO of CVS Caremark, recently said the pharmacy chain will consider hiring more physicians going forward as it expands primary care services, according to a Boston Business Journal report.