The Senate stopped the House's bid to repeal the healthcare reform law but approved a measure to end a tax-reporting requirement in the law, which is expected to be signed by President Obama, according to a report by the Wall…
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Pointing to a federal judge's decision to strike down the healthcare reform law, Physician Hospitals of America and Texas Spine and Joint Hospital have filed a motion to invalidate the ban on physician-owned hospitals, according to a PHA release.
If federal antitrust guidelines were applied to health insurance markets, 99 percent of them would be deemed "highly concentrated," according to an AMA release.
A bill by Senate Republicans that would impose automatic cuts on Medicare, Medicaid and other federal entitlement programs has gained one Democratic supporter, according to a report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who faces a…
Although the Obama administration will appeal a Florida judge's decision to strike down the entire healthcare reform law, some Democrats are considering the options should the Supreme Court eventually uphold the Florida decision, according to a report by the Hill.
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For the first time, a judge has struck down the entire healthcare reform law rather than just a part of it, according to a report by Bloomberg.
New York City Michael Bloomberg recently called for the creation of special health courts for medical liability claims in a speech to the New York State Bar Association, according to a news release by Common Good, a nonpartisan legal reform…
States are nearing a showdown with the federal government over ways to deal with the rising costs of Medicaid programs, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., is revising its conflict of interest policies to increase transparency between physicians and drug companies, according to a Herald-Sun report. The revision follows a report by ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism organization, which…
House Republicans may draft a bill to privatize Medicare, which would mean offering seniors a fixed payment to buy from a number of private coverage options, according to a report by the Associated Press.