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News$300M grant from RWJF intended to reduce health disparities
Today the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is expected to announce a $300 million initiative designed to reduce significant regional and ethnic care disparities across the U.S.--and ultimately, if Read more...
Study: Acute shortage of adult primary care MDs coming
A new study appearing in the journal Health Affairs attaches some numbers to a problem we all see coming--the growing U.S. shortage of primary care physicians. According to the study, by 2025 the Read more...
Lack of PA reform bill leads to higher med mal costs
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) is taking a unique tack on healthcare reform--one which, in essence, holds doctors hostage. He's telling the state's physicians that until there's an agreement on Read more...
MA lawmakers mull ban on pharma gifts to doctors
Packaging it as part of a larger healthcare reform bill, a Massachusetts legislator is proposing a measure that would bar pharmaceutical companies from giving gifts and freebies to doctors. Senate Read more...
WA governor proposes tougher patient safety rules
Washington state governor Chris Gregoire (D) has introduced a proposal which would call for hospital safety data disclosures. The plan also features tougher provider credentialing standards, more Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Romney fights attacks on MA health reforms
Everyone knows that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) comes with considerable healthcare industry baggage, given her involvement in the failed healthcare reform scheme backed by her husband. Now, Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Clinton health plan gets some nods
Though it's been more than a decade after her healthcare initiative failed, health reform proposals by presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton still get more attention than most. And while the Read more...
ALSO NOTED: P.A. sentenced in fraud case; Union maps bargaining strategy; and much more...
> A Brooklyn, N.Y., physician assistant has been sentenced to six months in jail plus 4 1/2 years of probation and was ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution for overbilling Montefiore and North Read more...
MA hospital-acquired infections cost millions
Hospital-acquired infections in Massachusetts add as much as $473 million a year to healthcare costs, according to a state-funded study, leading to a recommendation Massachusetts require hospitals to Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Upping pay for primary care
It's no surprise presidential hopefuls are giving us an earful on their healthcare reform proposals. The thing is, unless they acknowledge one critical issue--the growing scarcity of primary-care Read more...
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