Topic: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
President Barack Obama has nominated Harvard medical professor Donald Berwick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid. Obama had signaled his plans in March and made them official Monday. Berwick leads a nonprofit group that tries to improve the efficiency of the health care ...
US health care spending slowed by recession in 2008, but it still grew faster than economyThe U.S. spent an average of $7,681 per person on health care in 2008, for an eye-popping total of $2.3 trillion — even though spending actually slowed ...
Recession slowed US health care spending in 2008, but it still grew faster than economyThe recession dramatically slowed U.S. health care spending to $2.3 trillion in 2008, but it still grew much faster than the economy as a whole, accounting for more ...
A dozen New Jersey hospitals are paying doctors as an incentive to save the hospitals money. The principle is known as gainsharing, and it's generally prohibited under federal law. But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are allowing tests of the ...
Move to generic drugs slows rise in health care costs; sector's share of the economy grows tooHealth care continued to take up a greater share of the economy in 2007, as spending on hospitals, doctors and other services increased 6.1 percent to ...
Health care spending slows to lowest rate since the 1990s as consumers turn to genericsSpending on health care slowed slightly in 2007 as consumers turned more to generic drugs instead of brand-names to fill their medicine cabinets, the government reported Monday. Although ...
Medicare issued new rules Monday that restrict insurance agents' contact with the elderly and disabled when selling prescription drug plans and more comprehensive health coverage called Medicare Advantage. The regulations will go into effect Oct. 1, which is when insurers can begin ...
States cite more than 90 percent of nursing homes last year for health, safety deficienciesThe typical nursing home was cited for seven health and safety deficiencies last year, with for-profit homes more likely to have problems than facilities run by local governments ...
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