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ALSO NOTED: Hospital group says quality reporting too costly; Health IT 'name game' creating headaches; and much more...
> The Premier Healthcare Alliance, which represents 2,000 hospitals across the U.S., is raising a stink over new quality reporting standards it says are far too costly to implement. Read more...
FDA may get $275 million more for staff, outsourcing
The Bush administration is asking Congress for an additional $275 million for fiscal 2009 to allow the FDA to add more workers, expand programs and technology, and perhaps most interestingly, Read more...
OB/GYN referral guidelines stir controversy
New guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have stirred up controversy, with parties including the Bush Administration weighing in to complain that they may be Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Consumer group sues FDA for stronger Cipro warnings; Study: Catheter infections preventable; and much more...
> Consumer group Public Citizen has sued the FDA, demanding that it issue stronger warnings regarding Cipro and related antibiotics. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: The reverberating effects of the S-CHIP veto; Minnesota health costs rise; and much more...
> The Bush Administration's veto of the S-CHIP expansion could cost Tennessee hospitals $150 million. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: States challenge S-CHIP limits; FL hospitals fight for PIP law; and much more...
> Several states have come together to mount a federal challenge to the Bush administration's refusal to let them expand their S-CHIP programs. Read more...
N.Y. considers suing feds over SCHIP rules
Never let it be said that New York's Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) takes things lying down. Aggravated by federal officials, who seemingly don't want to give him a waiver to expand the state's Children's Read more...
Teaching hospitals dodge a bullet
President Bush delivered a blessing for medical educational programs this week as part of new legislation. By signing the Iraq war spending bill, which contained language impacting Medicaid reimbursement, Bush also agreed to halt planned changes to federal Medicaid match funding. The Bush administration had previously proposed to eliminate Medicaid payments given directly to hospitals as a state match. Teaching hospitals have been using that money to pay for residency programs, but the …
Read more...Employers back value-driven healthcare
Employers have signed on to HHS's value-driven healthcare in large numbers over the past few months, with 775 agreeing to support the Bush administration's plan, according to HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt. The employers, which cover 21 million employees and their families, include 97 firms from the top 200 U.S. companies, plus 25 states and state employee health plans. They've agreed to support the "four cornerstones" of value-driven healthcare, including expanded use of healthcare IT, …
Read more...Medicaid cuts could slam teaching hospitals
New proposals being developed by the Bush administration would cut Medicaid money that currently pays treatment of patients by residents. Teaching hospitals use the money, which comes in as a match for state Medicaid funds, to fund residency programs. However, Bush officials argue that Medicaid funding shouldn't be used to train residents, and say the cuts would save about $1.7 billion which could be used for other purposes. In a move that would give teaching hospitals a chance to …
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