A 13-year old lawsuit came to an end Friday when a St. Louis Circuit Court jury ruled in favor of six tobacco companies in the suit filed by 37 Missouri hospitals seeking more than $455 million and punitive damages for…
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CMS has issued a proposed rule that will create a "standardized, transparent process" for states when they set Medicaid reimbursement rates and help ensure access, according to an AHA News Now report.
CMS has informed Florida health officials that it will not approve its plan to privatize the state's Medicaid program, allowing Medicaid HMOs, at least for the time being, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
The Department of Health and Human Services has approved a plan by Arizona to halt new enrollment to and eliminate its medical-expense deduction program, a small part of the state's Medicaid program, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, according…
Former President Bill Clinton said there's a chance the Supreme Court could rule against the reform law's individual mandate to buy health insurance, but he believes the rest of the law will stay intact, according to a report by The…
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Due to the recession, the United States experienced the largest one-year decline in employer-based health coverage on record, according to a release by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
House Republicans, back in their constituencies for the two-week congressional recess, staunchly defended the plan they recently passed to transform Medicare into a voucher system, according to a report by the Seattle Times.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine recently found that different anesthetic drugs create different patterns in the brain, a discovery that may be an important step to understanding how anesthesia actually works, according to an NPR…
Terrence P. Murphy, MD, a cosmetic surgeon in Denver, is questioning some cosmetic surgeons' use of "awake surgery," involving high doses of local anesthesia without sedation, according to a release by Murphy Plastic Surgery.
Physician Hospitals of America and Texas Spine and Joint Hospital will appeal a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against the organizations’ lawsuit, which contended restrictions on physician-owned hospitals are unconstitutional, according to a…