Washington—-HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today declared a public health emergency to ensure that individuals, including those enrolled in Medicare, medicaid and the State Children’s health insurance Program , in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama continue to receive their health care items and services.
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IBM staff will hold four-hour rolling stoppages in Sydney, a move that would affect customers such as Qantas, Westpac and Medicare.
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Trouble looms and there are no simple solutions. What you�and the next president�need to know.
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Improvements in the prevention of catheter-related infections will be a prime focus at the annual conference of the Association for Vascular Access in Sept. The conference comes on the eve of major changes in Medicare that will eliminate payments to hospitals that fail to prevent certain hospital-acquired infections. AVA will hold its 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting Sept.
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AN IT company is taking on Medicare, suing it for anti-competitive conduct and breaches of the Trade Practices Act.
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Statement from Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, Executive Director. “While we welcome news today from the U.S. Census Bureau that the number of uninsured Americans has declined, the picture is not all rosy. Yes, the number of people without health insurance has decreased from 47 million in 2006 to 45.7 million in 2007, but it’s the government public health programs that are picking up the slack.
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Former Medicare official Ruben Jose King-Shaw Jr. to lead All-Med services Ruben Jose King-Shaw Jr., a former Medicare official and former secretary of the Florida Agency for health care Administration, will become chief executive of All-Med services of Florida.
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Medicare overpaid for irinotecan, a cancer drug sold by Pfizer under the name Campostar, by $6.5 million in March because of a delay in updating its pricing formula, according to a report released on Tuesday by the HHS Office of Inspector General, Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times reports.
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