CMS Proposes 6.1% Physican Payment Cut and Expanded Meidcare Services

June 30, 2010 In a proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) physicians could see a 6.1 percent Medicare payment cut on Jan. 1, 2011 and Medicare patients could see expan...

FTC Delays Red Flags Rule Pending Lawsuit Resolution

June 30, 2010 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has agreed to another delay of implementation of its Red Flags Rule that would require doctors and other small businesses to provide the same strateg...

CIRM Awards $25M to Stem Cell Transplantation Research

June 29, 2010 The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the State’s stem cell funding agency created by Proposition 71, has awarded $25 million to 19 projects focused on solving i...

Clinical Alert to MDs on FDA's Clopidogrel Warning

June 29, 2010 On June 28 the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) and the American Heart Association (AHA) issued a clinical alert to physicians regarding the new FDA warning about patie...

Senior Health Plan May Extend to Rural Regions

June 25, 2010 Local and national elder care leaders convened at a conference in Sacramento this week, the culmination of a yearlong project to explore the expansion of an all-inclusive healthcare pr...

Aetna Pulls CA Rate Hike Filing

June 25, 2010 Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) has withdrawn a filing it made to the California Department of Insurance proposing an average 19 percent rate increase for 65,000 individual policy holders, the ...

Primary Care Doctors' Pay Slightly Up, Decrease for Some Specialists

June 25, 2010 Primary care physicians in the nation saw their compensation keeping pace with inflation in 2009 while specialists saw both increases and declines according to a recent national survey...

OSHPD, Associations, Insurers Report on CA Hospital Readmission Rates

June 23, 2010 A recent report by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) called Readmissions for California Hospital Patients 2005-2006, reveals that 36 percent of patients a...

Poizner Institutes Tougher Review of Rate Hikes by Insurers

June 22, 2010 When California’s four largest health insurers file proposed medical insurance premium increases with the California Department of Insurance (CDI), those increases will now get anoth...

OncoMed Strikes $40M Cancer Stem Cell Deal with Bayer

June 18, 2010 Redwood City-based OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Inc. has formed an alliance, which includes $40 million in upfront cash, with Bayer Schering Pharma AG of Germany to develop cancer-fighting ...

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Kaiser Wins Workplace Awards

June 23, 2010 Kaiser Permanente made the top third of Computerworld's list of Top...

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