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Opinion: A moderate ruling with risks ahead
Don't call it a mandate—it's a tax
Supreme Court's Medicaid ruling: 'A shift in kind, not merely degree'
States face a challenge to meet health law's deadline
Mystery after the ruling: Which states will refuse Medicaid expansion?
Justice-by-Justice healthcare scorecard
Relief, uncertainty at county hospital after ruling
Healthcare law upheld: What's next for FL?
A sick rally, so to speak, for hospital stocks
Gawande: Something wicked this way comes
June 28, 2012
Supreme Court healthcare ruling: For health industry, 'every man for himself'
Healthcare countdown: Who wins, loses—pays?
Romney and Obama preview reactions to healthcare ruling
A look back at Court's arguments on healthcare, laughs included
Healthcare patient data laws outdated, says Consumers Union
Lehigh Valley Health Network to settle nurses' lawsuit for $4.5M
Opinion: Limits on residents' work hours may adversely affect patient care
Maryland doctors: We get paid, not 'reimbursed'
Jury awards family $55M in Hopkins malpractice case, largest in state history
Culture of medicine runs on people power, not tech
June 27, 2012
Democrats eye healthcare contingency plan
New Accretive allegations: Debt collector told new mom to pay or baby would stay
Alaska's Medicaid to pay OCR $1.7M for potential HIPAA violations
Will mergers get hospitals out of the sick ward?
Could Kaiser Permanente's low-cost healthcare be even cheaper?
Overhaul of healthcare in VT arrives for cancer patients
Study: Hospital costs drop when infants treated better
N.J. lawmakers approve bill requiring for-profit hospitals to post financial records
Doctor shortage raises rural C-section rate
How doctors can ethically harness the placebo effect
June 26, 2012
A viewer's guide to the SCOTUS healthcare ruling
Supreme Court to review Phoebe Putney purchase of Palmyra
E-records linked to fewer malpractice claims
Memorial, BlueCross lock horns over rates
UPMC's electronic health information exchange begins
Why don't more hospitals use electronic health records?
Program lets doctors 'prescribe' mHealth apps
Dropping legal barriers doesn't guarantee interstate insurance sales
University of Washington program tries to give rural medicine a boost
Opinion: Will we miss healthcare law if it dies?
June 25, 2012
Opinion: Berwick on how 'Obamacare' has put nation on right track
Supporters slow to grasp health law's legal risks
11 facts about the Affordable Care Act
OR study shows benefits, price, for newly insured
US healthcare reform efforts through history
The wild ups and downs of an alleged Medicare scammer
Raises, bonuses prevail for hospital CEOs
Hep C suits might not tap hospital's 'deep pockets'
Taxpayers increasingly foot bill for bariatric surgery
Doctor takes on medical board
June 22, 2012
FL health insurance plans owe $124M in rebates
US attorney, FBI join probe into hospital hepatitis C outbreak as lawsuits emerge
Rare drug-resistant bacteria spotted in US hospital
Summit hospital to settle with feds in overbilling charges
North Kansas City Hospital officials examine legal options after sale news
AZ hospital abruptly closes
Layoffs hit Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Reno
Opinion: Getting doctors to practice what they preach
Ghost patients: Hospitals hold off admitting Medicare patients
The Measured Man
June 21, 2012
Getting past healthcare's individual mandate
Medicaid's future tied to court decision on healthcare reform
Hospitals find a few defenders on Wall Street
Even if healthcare law dies, many of its changes won't, industry says
Leadership changes for Capella-Saint Thomas hospitals
Stamford Hospital to accelerate construction
Sutter Health, Marin General both declare victory after arbitrator orders Sutter to pay
E-health records adopted by more than 100K healthcare providers
26,000 uninsured Americans die each year
Healthcare reform: 4 companies leading change
June 20, 2012
Health reform with a mandate: the MA story
Does Medicaid actually help people?
Trauma in the ER: Who covers the uninsured?
Fix health care after Supreme Court ruling, poll says
CA hospitals collect duplicate payments for spinal surgeries
Geisinger, Merck team up to make sure patients follow doctors’ orders
More hospitals protect gay patients, report says
Healthcare sees emerging future in frugal innovation
EHR innovation gap threatens healthcare progress
At NY's Wyckoff Hospital, ex-chairman breaks neck
June 19, 2012
Reform may survive if SCOTUS kills mandate
Health reform without a mandate: Lessons from WA
Ex-Aetna chief criticizes insurance mandate
AMA head says doctors need higher Medicare payments, lawsuit protection
CEO expresses concern over future of NH's Exeter Hospital
VT to cope better than most if healthcare law repealed
Life after healthcare ruling
Fast access to medical records helps fight epidemics
CA court allows unsupervised nurses to give anesthetics
Feds: Millions stolen from Medicare wound up in Cuban banking system
When smart mobile technology meets good science
June 18, 2012
Democrats in the dark on post-SCOTUS planning
Hep. C outbreak at Exeter Hospital raises questions
Professor takes on hospital in Utah Medicaid breach
VA threatens Orlando hospital contractor
Hospital systems at odds over 'poaching' physicians
Officials: Taxpayers need say on CHS
Fairview's new goal: Less repeat business
Knee surgery turned deadly at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Parkland Hospital getting ready-made bathrooms
Detroit Medical Center to test new job seekers for tobacco
June 15, 2012
Parties strategize dealing with Supreme Court decision on healthcare
AMA, key backer of healthcare law, looks into reboot
For hospital CIOs, mergers complicate move to electronic records
Hep C outbreak at NH hospital likely caused by employee drug abuse
Hospital units for elderly could cut nation's healthcare costs
Assuming the doctor's a 'he'
Parents could skip doctor's office with this device
Employers' 'plan B' if health reform is axed
U.S. high court: Never mind the 9. Meet the 36 SCOTUS clerks
Many doctors use limited Spanish skills with patients
June 14, 2012
Dems, GOP battle over healthcare law as 2013 spending bill advances
Navigating the healthcare maze
Cost of healthcare relief temporary, federal report shows
Commentary: What we learned from cutting colon surgery infections
Infographic: States’ progress on health insurance exchanges
Oakland, UCSF children's hospitals may merge
NY accelerates state health information exchange
Reinventing healthcare in one of America's poorest cities
OhioHealth, cardiology doctors reach deal
Woman physician, negotiate thyself or lose $350,000
June 13, 2012
The secret world of healthcare pricing
Medicare Advantage enrollment rises 10 percent on lower premiums
Gender pay gap exists for doctors too
Highmark, Jefferson Regional announce partnership worth at least $275M
Art of patient satisfaction meets the science of medicine
Centralizing healthcare big data in the cloud
Carolinas HealthCare expanding to manage Cone Health
CT children's hospital, insurer settle lengthy contract dispute
All 4 trauma surgeons leave one ME hospital to work for another
Opinion: Doctors, practice what you preach
June 12, 2012
Can hospital execs walk the tightrope over the cost-quality chasm?
Sick (and poor) in MA: Longer waits, less satisfied patients
Ready or not, genomics is coming to hospitals
Insurer's 30-day prescription limit aims to cut painkiller abuse
The largest U.S. pill mill's rise and fall
Wireless sensors reduce ICU days
OU, Cleveland Clinic announce new medical school campus
Freestanding ED to hospital: The new wave?
High-risk pregnancies increasing, hospitals specializing
Noisy hospitals need Rx for quiet as patients rest
June 11, 2012
States quietly get ready for healthcare law
Obama was pushed by drug industry, e-mails suggest
Healthcare law's fate aside, hospitals evolve
Limiting 'gross charges' on hospital bills
MD's hospital rating system in danger of failing
U of I sharing patient details with fundraiser
Healthcare alliance creates massive virtual care community
Medical muscle: Memorial Hospital records $190M gain
Nationwide Children's Hospital expands
Company with fraud record lines up for FL Medicaid contract
June 8, 2012
NY hospitals look to combine, forming a giant
House advances bill repealing healthcare law's medical device tax
CareFirst to pay doctors $23M under primary care program
Opinion: Health reform—What if Obama hadn't tried it?
NH public health director: Viral outbreak 'clearly tied' to hospital lab
ME launches first-in-the-nation medical image archive
Geo-medicine new frontier in medical informatics
Nonprofit hospital CEO earned $616K in 2010
Should nurses be practicing alone?
Doctors returning to practice face challenges
June 7, 2012
Deal reached on online prescription reporting
MA House passes healthcare cost-control bill
Top 10 medical data breaches include public health departments
What surgeons get paid, and what patients think surgeons get paid
Prime Healthcare, facing allegations in CA, stakes a claim in TX
Are computers getting between patients and doctors?
Wellmark inks ACO deal with Genesis Health System
MU medical school dean resigns as school is under investigation
The real stakes in the healthcare case
June 6, 2012
Hospital billing shifting the cost to Medicare patients
Place your bets: Industry experts guess health reform's fate
Healthcare court ruling could paralyze Medicare
University hospitals: Cost-efficient leaders in care and research
Cancer doctors push Congress to help end drug shortages
Behind one hospital's fight against deadly infection
Opinion: The trouble with 'doctor knows best'
Online technologies doctors love
Opinion: Health professionals will respond to incentives, if we only let them
Squeezing out the doctor
June 5, 2012
Universal Health Services to buy Ascend Health for $500M
Hospitals add palliative teams at feverish pace
Health reform gets messy in MA
Poll: Only 36 percent of Americans support the ACA
ER doctor bets on urgent care chain
Do doctor-payment sunshine laws work?
'Body Area Networks' should free hospital bandwidth, untether patients
Can patient photos help cut medical errors?
Doctors swap pagers for smartphones
Gawande on failure and rescue
June 4, 2012
Reshaping Medicaid care to affect many
Health subsidies vs. med-tech tax
Looming court ruling worries some with health woes
Contractors: VA missed chance to speed hospital work, save jobs
IN considering statewide trauma network
Cardiologist says doctors ready for more active role
Hospital commission's big question: Essentia or no?
CA surgery clinics overbilled, insurance giant claims
Q&A: Wheeling Hospital CEO Ronald Violi on expansion
Prodigy set to graduate from med school at 21
June 1, 2012
WI healthcare systems revamping payment methods
Hospitals fight drug scarcity, fear patients harmed
Mayor talks to UM, Jackson heads about bitter contract dispute
Medicare mandates to reduce chemical restraints
Consumer Reports begins rating MA doctors
State health insurance exchanges choke on health IT
Sen. Franken: Encrypt laptops with medical info
UnitedHealth to rebate $3.5M to CA small businesses
Opinion: We should be in a race for prevention, not cures
Touchless technology put to test by surgeons