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Unemployed adults aged 18 to 64, regardless of whether they have health insurance, are more likely to have poorer physical and mental health than employed adults, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
No executive at Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System who moved to a new role during a management reorganization received a raise — except for interim CEO Charlesetta Woodard-Thompson, according to a Chattanoogan report.
Forty-five percent of physicians in small- or medium-sized practices say their practice is doing better this year compared to last, according to a new survey from Practice Fusion.
WellPoint, the largest health insurer based on enrollment, recorded net income of $335.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, down nearly 39 percent from last year's fourth quarter net income of $548.8 million, according to a WellPoint news release.
Iowa Senator Charles Grassley is ramping up efforts to monitor over-prescribing physicians who abuse the country's Medicaid program, and he has mailed letters to 34 states expressing his concern, according to a ProPublica report.
Congressional conferees began formal talks on how to avert the looming 27.4 percent Medicare pay reductions to physicians due to the sustainable growth rate, according to an Inside Health Policy report.
St. John Medical Center in Longview, Wash., has completed a $900,000 renovation of its catheterization lab after two years of fundraising, according to a report by The Daily News.
Several of the largest for-profit hospital companies posted gains in the stock market yesterday after healthcare companies predicted more people would go after elective procedures, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Members of Utah's House Health and Human Services Standing Committee have unanimously endorsed a bill that would require all healthcare facilities to report infection rates to the Department of Health, according to a Deseret News report.