The latest legislative attempt to reduce the shortage of primary-care physicians would retrain inactive or retiring physicians to provide such care.
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A proposed HHS rule outlines a data-collection process for determining the minimum scope of many future health insurance plans.
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Via Christi Health officials said they are suspending kidney transplants after learning of the deaths of four patients who had transplants at different times in the past year.
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Most of the focus of the Affordable Care Act is on expanding insurance coverage and defining how insurance companies provide insurance to individual purchasers. These are important issues, but the real challenge for healthcare is to change the dynamics that have led to such unsustainable spending growth over the last several decades.
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HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Ala., has received the go-ahead from the state of Florida to proceed with plans for a rehabilitation hospital serving the greater Orlando area.
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The largest umbrella group for U.S. nuns on Friday broke weeks of near-silence on a stinging Vatican report that they had undermined Roman Catholic teaching, saying the inquiry was "flawed" and based on "unsubstantiated accusations" that were causing pain throughout the church.
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Years after thousands of veterans learned they may have been exposed to infections at government-run hospitals, many are still mired in legal battles seeking compensation from the Veterans Affairs Department.
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Carondelet Health has confirmed that it is investigating a potential merger, joint venture or other partnership to continue operating its two Kansas City-area hospitals.
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Multihospital systems delivered another year of strong revenue growth in 2011 as they deftly navigated a landscape of familiar financial roadblocks.
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For decades, most hospitals around the country have avoided paying taxes under a hazy set of standards without strong public oversight—a state of affairs staunchly supported by hospital lobbyists and executives at the state and national level.
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