News Briefs

By Marilyn Werber Serafini Just a few weeks into his campaign, Texas Gov. and presidential candidate Rick Perry isn’t talking a whole lot about health ...

By Jenny Gold Kaiser Health News The race among hospitals to hire local physicians is heating up, even though the consequences for the cost and ...

By Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News Trumpeting a landmark study released recently, hospitals around the country have started offering deeply discounted CT scans for smokers ...

Virtua, the largest comprehensive healthcare system in Southern New Jersey, has partnered with Skillman, NJ-based Zweena to offer free online Personal Health Records (PHRs) to ...

The Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM) and West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS) in June announced that they are collaborating to establish a new ...

Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) revealed their bipartisan proposal to save Medicare and reduce the debt. The Lieberman/Coburn proposal would delay reimbursement cuts for docs for ...

Dr. Peter B. Bach, former senior adviser at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is the director of the Center for Health Policy and ...

By Michelle Andrews “That’s where the money is,” Willie Sutton famously quipped when asked why he robbed banks. There’s a similar rationale for employers who ...

By Phil Galewitz Florida wants to be the first state in the nation to charge most of its Medicaid recipients a monthly premium as well ...

By Alan Lyndon In 2007, Jenifer Gershman, 38 at the time, was diagnosed with amyloidosis, a rare and potentially life threatening disease. The treatment was ...