The Florida House of Representatives has approved legislation that would shift the state's 2.9 million Medicaid recipients in "HMO-style plans," according to an Orlando Sentinel report.
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission will launch McKesson's Personal Care Manager, a whole-person care management program for Texas Medicaid clients, in early 2011, according to a McKesson news release.
Raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67 in 2014 would save the federal government $7.6 billion in 2014 but would increase out-of-pocket costs for dropped beneficiaries by approximately $5.6 billion, according to release by the Kaiser Family…
The cost of the healthcare reform law will remain fuzzy until the administration decides what benefits must be covered by the state health insurance exchanges that start in 2014, according to a report by Politico.
A recent study by Deloitte suggests that the government underestimated the amount U.S. consumers spent on healthcare goods and services by $363 billion, or 14.7 percent.
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The Vermont House of Representatives has passed a bill that creates the first steps toward a single-payor health system for the state, according to a report by the Brattleboro Reformer.
Mark Cipolle, MD, Wilmington, Del.-based Christiana Care Health System's medical director of trauma and neurocritical care, has received a $130,000 research grant from the National Trauma Institute to study platelet transfusion in patients with brain hemorrhage, according to a health…
The Harry T. Mangurian, Jr., Foundation has awarded Mayo Clinic a $1 million gift, pledged over four years, to continue its work in studying Lewy body dementia, according to a hospital news release.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has provided information on radiation exposure and treatment and in the wake of the natural disasters in Japan.
The healthcare reform law will worsen the supply of primary care physicians treating Medicaid patients because temporary increases in pay would not attract enough physicians to meet the huge expansion in Medicaid recipients, according to a study by the Center…