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March 8, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, UnitedHealth Group, Inc has announced plans to introduce contracts nationwide that will overhaul the reimbursement structure for medical providers and hospitals. With more than 5,500 hospitals and...
September 1, 2010
The U.S. outspends all other industrial countries on health care, and yet we do not enjoy better health. Quite the opposite: an American baby born in 2006 can expect to live to 78—two years less than a baby born across the Canadian border...
May 1, 2010 | Health Affairs
PRACTICE: Durham Community Health Network in Durham, North Carolina, and its local and state partner institutions.
WHO AND WHERE: Durham Community Health Network, a public-private partnership providing care management for Durham County...
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 84 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. Yet, the number of women dying in childbirth or within a year of giving birth has only increased, with 658...
In an unusual move, the chair of a Food and Drug Administration panel is defying a recommendation that his own panel made last week to endorse a powerful opioid painkiller, because he believes the drug represents a “danger” to public...
Something’s percolating at CMS – the agency that operates Medicaid and CHIP – with potential to connect more people to primary care and advance health equity.
In our complex health system, primary care knits together fragmented and...
