In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States today served a blow to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act as it ruled that ...
Read More »Health Care System Must Prepare For Global Warming
By Lisa Gillespie Climate change is happening, and with that will come more deaths from heat-related illness and disease, according to a report released Tuesday. The report, ...
Read More »Should Doctors Participate in the Death Penalty?
By now, you’ve heard about the execution-gone-bad in Oklahoma where inmate Clayton Lockett died of a heart attack forty minutes after his lethal injection began and was abruptly ...
Read More »Doctors Take Home Huge Payments From Medicare
By Jordan Rau Medicare’s release Wednesday of millions of records of payments made to the nation’s doctors comes as the government is looking to find more ...
Read More »Obamacare ‘Here To Stay’ As Enrollment Exceeds 7 Million
By Mary Agnes Carey The Obama administration took a victory lap Tuesday as enrollment through the health law’s exchanges topped 7 million, a goal previously thought ...
Read More »TIME Tells Story of Disastrous Launch of Healthcare.gov and its Saviors
By Alan Lyndon To say the launch of Healthcare.gov last October was a disaster is being overly generous. It was worse than that. It was ...
Read More »Rand Paul Wants To Block Nation’s Top Doctor Over Gun Views
By Brad Broker Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday made it clear that he does not like President Obama’s choice for Surgeon General and plans to ...
Read More »Health Plans Must Cover Suicide Related Costs, But Many Refuse
By Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News Dealing with the aftermath of a suicide or attempted suicide is stressful enough. But some health plans make a harrowing experience worse ...
Read More »Family Physicians Group Endorses Congress’ Plan to Overhaul Doc Pay
By Brad Broker Another major endorsement for the plan introduced by Congress to repeal and replace the SGR. The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), ...
Read More »Transition to ICD-10 May Cost 3X More Than Predicted For Physician Practices
The mandated implementation of the ICD-10 code set will be dramatically more expensive for most physician practices than previously estimated, according to an updated cost study released ...
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