TORONTO, July 29 /CNW/ – The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) is encouraged by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s announcement to expand its Emergency Room (ER) Pay for Results Program. The OHA considers this expansion a positive step forward in improving both access to care and health system accountability."Hospitals are eager to reduce wait [...]
July 29, 2010Contact: Kate Cyrul / Bergen Kenny (Harkin) 202-224-3254Brian Weiss (Bayh) 202-224-6807Shana Marchio (Bond) 202-224-0309Harkin, Bayh, Bond Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Improve Health and Lower Health Care Costs through Medical-Legal PartnershipsWASHINGTON, D.C. -Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Kit Bond (R-MO) today introduced the bipartisan Medical-Legal Partnerships for Health Act, legislation aimed [...]
BATON ROUGE, La. The rates paid to many of the private health providers in Louisiana’s Medicaid program will fall Sunday to trim spending by $168 million in the program that provides care to the poor, elderly and disabled.The latest cuts to private hospitals, home- and community-based care providers, doctors and specialty service providers are [...]
WASHINGTON, July 29 The office of Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., issued the following news release:Senators Evan Bayh (D-IN), Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Kit Bond (R-MO) today introduced the bipartisan Medical-Legal Partnerships for Health Act, legislation aimed at improving public health and lowering health care costs through medical-legal partnerships (MLP). MLPs bring legal aid attorneys [...]
WASHINGTON, July 29 The office of Sen. Christopher S. ‘Kit’ Bond, R-Mo., issued the following news release:U.S. Senator Kit Bond today joined Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Evan Bayh (D-IN) to introduce the bipartisan Medical-Legal Partnerships for Health Act, legislation aimed at improving public health and lowering health care costs by promoting medical-legal partnerships [...]
July 27JEFFERSON CITY Proposition C isn’t getting a free ride to the Aug. 3 vote after all. It turns out the Missouri Hospital Association has decided to spend some of its money opposing the ballot issue that would allow Missourians to opt out of federal health insurance mandates.The hospital association, a powerful lobbying force [...]
According to US Department of Health and Human Services, compared with urban Americans, rural residents have higher poverty rates, have fewer doctors, hospitals, and other health resources, and face more difficulty getting to health services. Beginning 2014, when health care reform becomes effective, an estimated 2.4 million Californians will be newly-eligible for Medi-Cal. However, many [...]
WASHINGTON The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Dr. Najam Azmat and the Satilla Regional Medical Center in Waycross, Ga., the Justice Department announced today. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, alleges that the defendants submitted false or fraudulent claims to [...]
PML-N MNA Rana Abdul Sattar has said that the PML-N government has provided the necessary medicines (worth of Rs. 1.70 billion) to all the government hospitals in Punjab, besides, establishing the ACs and generators in the general wards of these government hospitals by spending Rs.2 billion for providing the maximum relief to the perturb patients [...]
July 27Union workers at Deaconess Medical Center and Valley Hospital and Medical Center have voted to authorize a one-day strike against the facilities because of alleged unfair labor practices.The vote came on Monday night from union workers at the two facilities, according to a union news release.A date was not set for the one-day strike, [...]
