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Premier Inc., an alliance of more than 2,300 U.S. hospitals and 67,000-plus other healthcare sites working together to achieve high quality, cost-effective care, and Xoft, Inc., the leading provider of FDA-cleared Electronic Brachytherapy Systems, announced the execution of a group purchasing contract. Xoft was awarded an exclusive three-year contract for brachytherapy systems with Premier Purchasing [...]

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 [...]

July 29DANVILLE The cardio-pulmonary rehabilitation unit at Provena United Samaritans Medical Center will close in a couple of months.One patient, however, hopes to convince Provena officials to reverse that decision.The closure is the result of more stringent Medicare requirements, according to Gretchen Wesner, Provena’s marketing and public relations director.The changes include a significant increase [...]

WASHINGTON In a defeat for the powerful drug lobby, a Senate panel approved legislation to prohibit drug companies from paying generic drug makers to delay bringing less costly products to market.The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the measure, which was inserted into a spending bill that funds the Federal Trade Commission’s budget.The measure would ban [...]

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 28REPORTING FROM SAN ANTONIO Tribune Washington BureauAs Congress debated the healthcare bill, many critics lamented it would do little to transform a system in which doctors and hospitals bounce patients around in an uncoordinated, costly, sometimes tragic process.But something unexpected has happened since President Obama signed the legislation in March. Spurred in [...]

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 [...]

July 27POTSDAM As earmarks increasingly get chopped in Washington, D.C., the Canton-Potsdam Hospital will likely find itself $700,000 short as it seeks to build a cancer-treatment center at its Leroy Street campus.Rep. William L. Owens, D-Plattsburgh, requested the money for the hospital, but the funds were never approved by a Congressional subcommittee.But even if [...]

By N.C. AizenmanWASHINGTONVenante Kotey is a stay-at-home mother in suburban Washington. Bridget Hamilton-Roberts is a nurse more than 500 miles away in Atlanta. Theyve never met. But over the past year and a half, Hamilton-Roberts has become critical to Kotey’s healthall through conversations over the telephone.The two are part of an innovative disease management program [...]

BOWIE, Md., July 28 /PRNewswire/ MedAssurant Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, announced that research from a major study by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) was presented in Washington D.C. today featuring MedAssurant's data and analytics. The results were presented by AHIP alongside executives from Aetna, Humana, Tufts and United in a [...]