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AMA, SEIU ask court to stop UnitedHealth deal

A group of opponents including the AMA and the SEIU Nevada have filed suit to stop UnitedHealth Group's planned buyout of Las Vegas-based health plan Sierra Health Services. The deal already has been Read more...

Study: Care at safety net hospitals lagging

Care at safety net hospitals is of significantly lower quality than hospitals that don't serve the poor and underserved, according to a new study appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Read more...

CMS wants to cut skilled-nursing spending

CMS says it is proposing to cut about $770 million in overall payments to skilled-nursing facilities in fiscal 2009, though it also plans to help the industry with an inflationary update to absorb Read more...

UnitedHealth suffers financial setback

After years of allegations that management engaged in financial manipulations to feather their own nest, some might see this as a bit of karma. Having already missed its first quarter financial Read more...

Farm bill would restrict MD-owned specialty hospitals

In a piece of gamesmanship worthy of Capitol Hill, legislators behind a pending agriculture bill have slipped in a provision that would ban physician ownership of specialty hospitals. Versions of Read more...

Reports suggest that Merck downplayed Vioxx risks

Another day, another report suggesting that a pharmaceutical company tried to bury data impugning the safety of one of its products. This time, a study has been published in The Journal of the Read more...

Healthcare industry top spender on federal lobbying in '07

It's good to get attention from federal legislators, but it's going to cost you. That's no mystery to some key healthcare groups, who collectively spent $445 million on federal lobbying during 2007, Read more...

States may give advanced-practice nurses wider scope

A wave of bills are working their way through state legislatures that would expand the scope of practice for advanced-practice nurses. In fact, at least 24 states are either considering such bills Read more...