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Employees love to gripe about rising healthcare costs, but a new poll finds most are not willing to sacrifice to pay less for their insurance. Only 27 percent of people with insurance provided throu...
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will use cloud computing services to support its Healthcare.gov plan finder and the system demands of the health insurance exchange program being cre...
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Obesity costs some states as much as $15 billion a year, according to a new study from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The researchers estimated how much each state spend...
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Premiums for employer sponsored family health plans went up 9 percent this year, and workers' shares of premiums and deductibles also soared, a new national Kaiser Family Foundation survey shows...
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The American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement has adopted principles on developing outcome-based measures of doctors' quality. The recommendations wi...
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The VA’s far-reaching telehealth program continues to expand as telehealth makes inroads as a viable solution to providers seeking lower costs and improved care, particularly when it comes to ...
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The influence of the Internet on health care and the practice of medicine continue to increase, according to a Harris Poll. In the late 1990s, Harris first used the word "cyberchondriacs" ...
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Doctors are paid higher fees in the United States than in several other countries, and this is a major factor in the nation’s higher overall cost of healthcare, says a new study by two Columbi...
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