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Beware Flaws in Online Physician Rating Sites
More Male Nurses, But Wage Disparity Persists
AHRQ: ED costs hard to predict with $4 to $24,000 swings
A medical lab in your smartphone
February 27, 2013
Truven Top 100 Hospital Scores Measure 'Leadership Impact'
Coordinated healthcare could save CA $110B
Highmark: We need contract with UPMC
Tenet Healthcare misses on fourth-quarter earnings
Opinion: The unfulfilled promises of HIT
February 26, 2013
Both sides mulling next move in hospital acquisition challenge
Aetna consolidates health IT assets
CA hospital CEO's pay stands out
MGH employees watch customer service video—for $250
February 25, 2013
Business Roundup: Summa Health Finds a Partner
Healthcare Imaging Strategies Not Exactly a Snap
Rochester MN ponders $6B Mayo expansion
Health insurance premium increases drop since 2009
Opinion: Overcoming obstacles to better healthcare
February 22, 2013
Obamacare is winning
Q&A: Marilyn Tavenner, Obama's pick to head Medicare
Bitter pill: Why medical bills are killing us
Getting patients to think about costs
Summa, Catholic Health Partners to partner
HHS: Most states on track with health law's technical demands
MA receives $44M to further healthcare overhaul
Robot docs will even make health insurance less painful
February 21, 2013
Unlikely prescription from doctors: Less is more
Weight Loss Surgery Doesn't Cut Health Costs
Hospital Mergers Unlikely to be Affected by Antitrust Ruling
A digital shift on health data swells profits in an industry
IL health system hires executive from troubled Dallas hospital
February 20, 2013
Supreme Court gives FTC a win on hospital mergers
CDC: Drug OD deaths climb for 11th straight year
Doctors-in-training face licensing delays in IL
5 ways to improve HIEs
Hopkins patients come forward as investigation into secret recording continues
Intensive care MDs: More white coats, fewer piercings preferred
February 19, 2013
BCBSNC Kicks Off Orthopedic Bundles
NCQA Issues First ACO Accreditations
Business Roundup: HMA Finalizes Deal with Bayfront Health
States worry about rate shock during shift to new health law
Feds will run most Obamacare exchanges
Kaiser seen as a model for health care overhaul
Geography to play larger role in health premiums
Controversial address vaults Hopkins' neurosurgeon into political arena
Express Scripts 4Q profit jumps 74 percent
February 15, 2013
Few States Choose to Operate Health Insurance Exchanges
Q&A with WellPoint's Next CEO, Joe Swedish
States face Friday deadline on healthcare exchanges
US official touts health insurance markets, lawmakers leery
Hospital translators at the push of a button
24 hot and hiring healthcare jobs
February 14, 2013
SD may condense medical school for some
CA reveals details of health law insurance plans
Visiting the doctor, virtually
February 13, 2013
Moody's: Nonprofit Healthcare Debt Sees Record Downgrade
Dispute develops over discount drug program
Graph: The slowdown in US healthcare spending
TX shuts down hospital following investigation
Personal note from ER doc written after woman's death goes viral
February 12, 2013
Dartmouth Readmissions Report Shows Scant Progress
Observation units may ease burdens of ER care, but at a price
Price for a new hip? Many hospitals are stumped
Online consults increasing, despite physicians' concerns
Prime Healthcare to buy Newark's Saint Michael's Medical Center
Should this doc have slammed her patient on Facebook?
February 11, 2013
Lower premiums at stake in NC Blue Cross lawsuit
Feds' 'e-health' initiative reaches out to patients
Montefiore's president, influential in Albany, is unknown by design
Solving Maryland's health disparities
Comparison shopping coming to Highmark
February 8, 2013
UT hospitals swallow "sick tax"
Safety problems at pharmacies a recurring issue
HHS: Medicare prescription drug savings hit $5.7B
MD's healthcare experiment: An insurance co-op
Fate of Brooklyn hospital in SUNY board's hands
February 7, 2013
NQF, JC Name National Patient Safety Award Winners
How OH's Republican governor sold the state on expanding Medicaid
Health insurance companies get in shape for 2014
SUNY president to recommend closure of Long Island hospital
Florida Blue plans accountable care program with Cleveland Clinic Florida
Compensation jumps for top NC hospital execs
February 6, 2013
Hospitalizations Up For the Terminally Ill
'Sunshine Act' Gets Guarded Reaction
Obama's health-insurance expansion eroding, CBO projects
Cerner, McKesson cooperating for HIE, interoperability's sake?
U. of Colorado Health ponders creating its own HMO
HIE debate gets fiery
Jackson Health, Kendall Regional battle over trauma
February 5, 2013
Feds to publicize drug and device company payments to docs next year
Healthcare spending in America, in 2 graphs
LSU hospitals leader concerned about employee drop
'July effect' rexamined
February 4, 2013
M&A Roundup: Prime, Tenet, BIDMC Announce Deals
Steward Health Lost $14.6M in 2011
ME politicians strive to stay in hospitals' good graces
Medical clinic workers struggle with burnout
L.A. County removing metal detectors from some hospital facilities
February 1, 2013
Tick, tock: Administration misses some health law deadlines
Mayo offers $6B vision to remake Rochester
As PPACA Deadlines Near, States Dawdle
Ask your doctor—but not via social media
Small surgeries, huge markups