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An estimated 29 million U.S. residents lacked health insurance for the entire year in 2015, 4 million fewer than in 2014, the Census Bureau reported today. The share of residents without health insurance for the year fell by 1.3 percentage points to 9.1% due to increases in both private and…
Seven in 10 hospitals provided their patients with the ability to view, download and transmit their health information electronically in 2015, a seven-fold increase from 2013, according to a report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National…
More than 300 established generic drugs under Medicare Part D had at least one price increase of 100% or more between first-quarter 2010 and first-quarter 2015, according to a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.
The Department of Health and Human Services anticipates using all 2015 risk corridors program collections to pay 2014 benefits, the agency announced Friday. Collections for the 2016 program also would be used first to pay remaining 2014 benefits and then 2015 and 2016 benefits, respectively,…
It remains unclear how a family contact who cared for an elderly Utah resident with travel-related Zika virus became infected, according to preliminary findings released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, the individual had close contact, such as kissing and…
Quality Improvement Organizations today resumed claim audits under the two-midnight inpatient admissions policy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
Global supplies of an isotope used in medical diagnostic imaging will fall substantially when a Canadian reactor stops producing it at the end of October, according to a report released today by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Nearly all of the world’s…
Based on national surveys, most enrollees who obtained coverage through the health insurance exchanges were satisfied overall with their qualified health plans in 2014 through 2016, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office. To varying degrees, QHP enrollees…
The AHA seeks nominations through Sept. 23 for its 2017 Hospital Awards for Volunteer Excellence. Hospital CEOs and directors of volunteer services are encouraged to nominate outstanding volunteer programs in the areas of community service, fundraising, in-service needs or challenges, and community…
When Bon Secours Hampton Roads (Va.) Health System’s healthy community initiative began in Norfolk’s East Ocean View neighborhood seven years ago, the prospects for reviving this coastal southeastern Virginia community of 4,500 residents seemed bleak.