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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, August 5, 2009
Current healthcare reform efforts under consideration in Congress have at least one thing in common, according to Mark McClellan, MD, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, August 5, 2009
An independent national poll released this morning reveals broad public concern and skepticism about the ability of Congress and President Barack Obama to pass meaningful healthcare reform without deficit spending.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, August 6, 2009
Can the federal government apply an individual mandate like the one in Massachusetts across the country? And how would the government enforce such a rule in very large states like California, with a population of 37 million, where 34% of non-Medicare age residents lack health coverage? How much would the feds charge uninsured Americans when they get sick? And how should the government collect fines for not getting insurance?
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, August 5, 2009
Americans spent $33.9 billion out-of-pocket on alternative therapies for the purpose of improving health during 2007, according to a new federal report.
By: Ben Amirault, for HealthLeaders Media, August 6, 2009
Tulare Healthcare, which includes Tulare Local Healthcare District, Tulare District Healthcare System, and Tulare District Hospital, agreed to pay the government $2.4 million to settle allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act, anti-kickback statute, and the Stark Law, according to a Department of Justice release.
By: Keri Mucci, for HealthLeaders Media, August 6, 2009
A New York City nurse slapped a lawsuit on her hospital after allegedly being forced to assist in a late-term abortion that defied her religious beliefs. Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a devout Catholic operating room nurse employed at Mount Sinai Hospital, claims she had to compromise her faith and perform the procedure on a 22-week pregnant patient or risk losing her job and her license.
By: Les Masterson, for HealthLeaders Media, August 5, 2009
ICD-10 implementation could prove as difficult for health insurers as a public insurance option and a sputtering employer-based market.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, August 5, 2009
One should never start a story with a series of numbers. But the amazing turn of 112-bed French Hospital Medical Center in San Luis Obispo away from the brink of bankruptcy justifies an exception.
By: Gienna Shaw, for HealthLeaders Media, August 5, 2009
Americans are so afraid of the big, bad Canadian healthcare system that the threat of "Canadian-style healthcare" makes for a compelling anti-health reform message. Even if it's not exactly true.