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Opinion: HSAs lucrative for insurers, costly for consumers
In its ongoing attempt to weaken a key provision of the healthcare reform law -- the one that requires insurers to...
Web Exclusive: How Will Partnership for Patients Reduce Medical Harm?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services hasn't yet explained much about how it intends to track success rates...
Web Exclusive: 1 in 3 Hospitalized Patients Suffers an Adverse Event
Researchers spotlight weaknesses in medical error-detection methods, and perhaps more strikingly, find that healthcare...
Web Exclusive: Hospital Chiefs Still Grappling With Reform
On the first anniversary of the Affordable Care Act's passage, health leaders attending the American College of...
AP-GfK Poll: Baby boomers fear outliving Medicare
The first baby boomers will be old enough to qualify for Medicare Jan. 1, and many fear the program's obituary will...
Metro Detroit hospital projects draw scrutiny
More than $1.3 billion in new hospital projects may give a boost to Metro Detroit's languishing economy, but could also...
Insurers and ratings groups post information to help patients choose doctors
For most people, picking a doctor is hardly a scientific process. They ask friends or family members to pass along...
An unhealthy state
Although reports vary, Alabama’s obesity rate ranks second worst the country at 30.1%. As a result, obese state...
New Web site shows NY health plans’ performance
An agreement made last year between the New York Attorney General's office and seven health plans that had adopted a...
Consumer perception study released
More than 38% of consumers in the U.S., among those who participated in a recent survey conducted by PCR, are unsure...

Audio Conference: In-sourcing vs. Outsourcing Disease and Health Management
Many managed care companies are struggling with which programs to bring in-house or whether to in-source all DM...