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Proposed federal budget increases ONC spend to $66M

Spending for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in President Barack Obama's proposed fiscal 2013 budget increases $5 million, bring the total up to more than $66 million. That

Obama's budget calls for $360B in healthcare spending cuts

President Obama's budget proposal involves some $360 billion in reductions to the Medicare and Medicaid budgets over the next decade, reported The Washington Post. The reductions include cuts in

CEO's retirement package could haunt hospital for years

Samuel Downing's last week of a nearly 40-year career with the Salinas Valley (Calif.) Memorial Healthcare System was an eventful one. Downing's retirement as CEO of the 269-bed hospital was

Budget deal sees some cuts for CHIP, exchanges

Congressional lawmakers avoided a government shutdown last week by agreeing on the contours of a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year, but at the potential cost of trims to several healthcare