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A small group of House Democrats expressed concern about HHS allowing states to determine the definition of essential health benefit packages.
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HHS should define core concepts for measuring post-acute-care and long-term-care performance as a way to promote common measurement goals across all providers, according to a report from a group of public and private healthcare leaders.
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Smith & Nephew will pay about $22 million to the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve allegations that it made improper payments to physicians in Greece in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Nurses Carol Bickford and Kathleen Smith and Dr. Russell Leftwich were named winners of the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's clinician information technology leadership awards.
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For-profit chain Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture with not-for-profit Integris Health, Oklahoma City, which would result in HMA owning 80% of five Integris...
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Mary Labyak, a pioneer of the U.S. hospice movement, died Saturday from lymphoma, according to a spokesman for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
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Waltham, Mass.-based InnoCentive, which works with companies to develop online tools for crowd-sourced problem-solving, has acquired OmniCompete, a U.K-based developer of online competitions.
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The National Institutes of Health has launched a website aimed at educating the public about clinical trials and boosting the number of volunteers for such research.
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HCA, Nashville, will pay a special dividend to shareholders worth about $1 billion, as it announced fourth-quarter earnings of $1.9 billion.
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LSU Health said it plans to lay off an unspecified number of employees at seven hospitals and at the administration level to make up for a $29 million loss in federal funding.
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