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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, April 24, 2009
Although specialty hospitals have reportedly skimmed profitable patients, general hospitals have not cut back on their care to low-income patients, which is threatening general hospitals' ability to subsidize their care to the poor, according to a survey of three U.S. healthcare markets.
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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, April 23, 2009
A controversial proposal to tax California hospitals in order to garner as much as $3.6 billion in additional federal Medicaid matching funds recently died because the hospital leaders couldn't agree on how much each facility should be assessed.
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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, April 23, 2009
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) halted a move by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) to hold a full vote on Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius' nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services Thursday. McConnell called for more time so GOP members could consider her selection.
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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, April 24, 2009
Hearings and actions this week on Capitol Hill have shown that the Democrats are planning to move full speed ahead toward having healthcare reform bills ready to mark up by summer.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, April 23, 2009
Nearly eight years after 9/11, the nation's hospitals are still in danger of being overwhelmed by mass-casualty disasters and public health emergencies, alleges a new HHS-sponsored study released today.
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By: Lisa Eramo, April 23, 2009
When Deb Howard was discharged from the military in 1992, she was given eight years' worth of her paper medical records in two tattered and worn out folders. And although the records include valuable health information, including every illness with which she had been diagnosed and every drug for which she had been prescribed during her military career, she says she has no idea where those records are now.
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By: Emily Berry, April 23, 2009
Yesterday's internal Food and Drug Administration meeting was routine and not specifically focused on its troubled device review process as suspected, according to an agency spokesperson.
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