California Regulator Signs Off On $37 Billion Aetna-Humana Insurance Merger
Aetna to spend nearly $50 million on health initiatives, agrees to more rate review.
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California Insurance Commissioner Urges Feds To Block $54 Billion Anthem-Cigna Deal
Commissioner Dave Jones says the deal would further reduce competition in the state鈥檚 health insurance market and harm consumers.
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Screen Flashes And Pop-Up Reminders: 鈥楢lert Fatigue鈥 Spreads Through Medicine
Electronic health records increasingly include automated alert systems pegged to patients鈥 health information. In some cases, though, the sheer volume of these messages has become unmanageable.
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Medicare Releases Draft Proposal For Patient Observation Notice
Although there is widespread agreement on the need to let people know if they haven鈥檛 been admitted, the language proposed by federal officials hasn鈥檛 satisfied everyone.
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As Hospital Chains Grow, So Do Their Prices For Care
The average patient stay costs $4,000 more at Sutter and Dignity hospitals than at other California medical centers, study shows.
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Medicare鈥檚 Efforts To Curb Backlog Of Appeals Not Sufficient, GAO Reports
Investigators from the GAO call for HHS to improve oversight of the Medicare appeals process and streamline it to make sure repetitive claims are handled more efficiently.
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For Doctors-In-Training, A Dose Of Health Policy Can Help The Medicine Go Down
Medical residents at George Washington University spend three weeks examining and diagnosing the nation鈥檚 health care system.
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At This Medical School, Students Mix Science And Health Policy
Health policy is far from an afterthought at George Washington University, where med students begin tackling the knotty topic in their first semester. 聽
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FDA Eases Paperwork To Help Some Patients Get Experimental Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration has introduced a simplified form that doctors will use to seek FDA approval to treat seriously ill patients with experimental drugs after other options run out.
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Study Suggests Federal Standard May Be Thwarting Some Transplant Patients
Researchers report that performance standards set by federal health officials may have led to many patients being dropped from transplant lists without improving survival rates.
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Lights Out: Some Children鈥檚 Hospitals Take Steps To Ensure A Good Night鈥檚 Sleep
Because of the important role sleep plays in healing, a trend is emerging in which children鈥檚 hospitals are reorganizing their workflow to help their young patients sleep through the night.
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California鈥檚 Glaring Shortage Of School Nurses
A new national pediatric guideline proposes that every school have a nurse on staff. In California, 57 percent of school districts do not employ nurses.
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When Adult Children Get Sick, It May Be Hard For Parents To Get Information
Federal law seeks to protect the privacy of patients鈥 health information, but sometimes leaving parents out of the loop can complicate the patient鈥檚 recovery.
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Blue Shield 鈥楲ifts The Veil鈥 On Executive Pay
Consumer advocates say the nonprofit鈥檚 disclosures come too late for policy holders and the public.
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Missouri Hospitals Seek To Focus Readmission Penalties On Patient Poverty
The Missouri Hospital Association objects to the formula for setting the federal penalties because it does not factor in the number of patients who are poor or in bad health. It is seeking to generate consumer interest in the penalties.
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CVS MinuteClinics: A Cure For Long Wait Times At Veterans Affairs?
The experiment in private partnership begins in Palo Alto, Calif.
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Medicare鈥檚 Drug-Pricing Experiment Stirs Opposition
A proposal to change the way Medicare pays for some drugs has set off intense reaction and lobbying 鈥 all tied to a common theme: How far should the government go in setting prices for prescription drugs?
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A Doctor Yearns For A Return To The Time When Physicians Were 鈥楢rtisans鈥
Dr. Abraham Nussbaum, author of a new book examining the drive toward quality metrics such as checklists, says he fears medicine could become just another job and not a 鈥渃alling.鈥
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Inspectors Find Calif. Hospital’s Pharmacy Posed Infection Risk
Thousands of patients at the San Diego-area hospital may have been exposed to infection last year because of unsanitary conditions in the compounding lab where IVs were mixed, officials found.
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Critics Of Medicare鈥檚 Overall Hospital Star Rating Push For Changes
Federal officials delayed the release of the ratings after the hospital industry and members of Congress objected to the formula, saying it worked against hospitals that take the patients that are the toughest to treat.
By Jordan Rau