marilyn tavenner
- Federal database shows $3.5 billion paid by health care industry to doctors in 5 months for clinical trials, consulting and other services
- Rep. Elijah E. Cummings on Tuesday called on federal health officials to reevaluate how they grade nursing homes in response to reports that some facilities are gaming the system.
- Federal regulators expressed confidence this week in Maryland's move to new technology to run its health exchange website.
- The federal government will announce today approval of a plan that will allow Maryland to keep a unique arrangement where it works under different criteria than other states in the way Medicare pays for hospital stays – and possibly become a national model.
- As Obama continues his campaign to win over Americans skeptical of the Affordable Care Act, the ranks of critics are growing, swollen by people who are losing their existing health insurance because it does not comply with the law
- The switch to digitizing medical information has been botched, but it's not beyond repair