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Web Exclusive: Medicare Part D Incurs Substantial Savings with Generics, CBO Says
Dispensing generic drugs rather than their brand-name counterparts reduced prescription drug costs in the Medicare...
Web Exclusive: Insurers Try Incentives to Improve Medication Adherence
For the millions of adults who don't regularly take their medicine as prescribed by their doctors, insurers and others...
Web Exclusive: Leading surgeon urges civilian trauma healthcare to follow military’s lead
War has often spurred medical advances: immunization against tetanus during World War I, the perfection of...
Web Exclusive: Landmark to become Catholic hospital, contrary to previous representation
Woonsocket’s Landmark Medical Center will become a Catholic hospital, subject to the limitations of...
Web Exclusive: California regulators seek up to $9.9 billion in fines from PacifiCare
California regulators are seeking fines of up to $9.9 billion from health insurer PacifiCare over allegations that it...
Web Exclusive: 3 Tips For HIPAA Privacy Officers
Follow these tips while awaiting HITECH's two major final rules—the breach notification final rule and the rule...
Web Exclusive: Co-owner of bay area pain clinics given 10 years in prison
A federal judge sentenced the co-owner of several Tampa Bay area pain clinic to 10 years in prison for conspiring to...
Web Exclusive: Management Education: Talking Points
Without sufficient skills, first-line managers do not benefit an organization. The first step to increase the number...
Web Exclusive: HMA Acquires Wuesthoff Health System for $145 Million
Health Management Associates, Inc. announced Tuesday that it will acquire the two-hospital, not-for-profit Wuesthoff...
Web Exclusive: CMS Releases SNF PPS Rates for Fiscal Year 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released the SNF PPS rates for the 2011 fiscal year. The notice...