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A study of the effects of water saturation thickness changes on hydrocarbon concentration at the surfacerequires an appropriate measuring technique. In the present analysis, near-surface measurement of benzene, toluene, ethlbenzene, [...]

A simple new tool may allow physicians to give the hundreds of thousands of patients who undergo certain heart procedures each year more information about the risks. Blue Cross Blue [...]

Hospitals and physicians have long complained that payers won't ante up for the costs of higher quality. In response, payers often contend that there is no evidence that higher quality [...]

Even with a change in administration in Washington, health care providers around the nation continue to be nervous about Medicare fraud charges. The latest firm to be hit is Apria [...]

Shortly after President George W Bush and Representative Charles Norwood, R-Ga., reached a compromise agreement, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a patients' rights bill. The bill passed on a [...]

The Wall Street journal reports that Philip Morris Cos. officials in the Czech Republic distributed an economic analysis concluding that cigarette consumption isn't a drag on the country's budget, partly [...]

There was some speculation that the Bush administration might ease the tough, new Health Insurance Portability Act requirements issued by the Department of Health and Human Services during the last [...]

Are your patients asking you questions about health information they have found on the Internet? If they aren't, why not? And are you ready for it when they do? It's [...]

In Pennsylvania, physicians and hospitals are joining forces in an effort to reform the medical professional liability system. The Pennsylvania Medical Society (www.pamedsoc.org) and The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of [...]

Physicians will not be alone in their efforts to ensure that patients receive quality health information on the Internet. Hi-Ethics, Inc., has announced that its members will rely on URAC's [...]

In an effort to reduce administrative costs, the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP) has joined with major employers around the nation to change the way they request information from [...]

Cost-cutting should not be the primary goal for information technology investments. Instead, the focus should be on improving access to care by streamlining eligibility and referral checking, providing better customer [...]

Employers may be seriously underestimating the costs of employee health problems. That conclusion comes from a study by the Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), which questions the wisdom of evaluating health [...]

Will cooperation by HMOs lead to better health for their members? That's the hope of the five largest health plans in Minnesota, which say they plan to work together to [...]

The nations health care tab continues to rise, hitting $1.2 trillion according to recent government estimates, Prescription drugs account for nearly 10 percent of the total, a figure that is [...]

A new study, entitled '2000 Performance and Practices of Successful Medical Groups,' researched better performing practices across the nation and found a number of counter-intuitive results. The study, conducted by [...]

A backlash against managed care is responsible for a broadening definition of malpractice according to a new study by Conning and Company. It found that along with a rise in [...]

In California, patients facing problems with their HMO, concerns over their medical privacy, or questions about their rights under new state HMO reform laws can turn to an interactive Internet [...]

Recent moves by Aetna, the nation's largest health insurer, to improve its relationships with physicians seem to be bearing fruit. The American Medical Association hailed Aetna's decision to drop its [...]

Most Americans are unwilling to store or transmit personal health information over the Internet, according to a new Gallup survey commissioned by MedicAlert Foundation. This is the first such survey [...]

In Boston, representatives of the American Medical Student Association staged a public education initiative in hopes of informing the community about the dangers of sleep-deprived physicians. To show the public [...]

A new study indicates that the Internet might help improve physician/patient communication, if there is money to make it work Research by Medem, the patient-physician e-health network founded by the [...]

The Internet will not solve the administrative redundancies, economic inefficiencies, or quality problems that have plagued the U.S. health care system for decades, according to a provocative new study by [...]

More than a third of e-health consumers are willing to pay a monthly fee to manage their benefits online, while 25 percent would actually switch health care plans to do [...]

Elderly patients treated for heart attack at teaching hospitals are more likely to survive and receive better quality care than those treated at hospitals that do not train physicians, according [...]

Much progress has been made, but the number of minorities--African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans--graduating from U.S. medical schools remains far lower than their representation in the overall population, according to [...]

Four of the nation's largest health insurers have been slapped with a class action lawsuit by Connecticut's Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. The suit accuses the state affiliates of Anthem Blue [...]

Patients with diabetes mellitm (DM) or insulin resistance are at high risk of developing atherosclerotic disease, especially following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). The use of cardiopulmonary bypass contributes additional [...]

HMOs make higher payments to major teaching hospitals than to non-academic centers, according to a study by The Medstat Group. The analysis found that HMOs pay major teaching hospitals about [...]

A performance benchmarking study of HMOs and point of service managed health care plans, developed by Towers Perrin, has found that almost 15 percent of health plans are able to [...]

Nearly three in four Americans with health insurance are concerned about the nation's health care system and feel 'there is something seriously wrong' with the way it is working, according [...]

While Congress tries to decide whether it does, in fact, have a budget deal, there was some good news, for a change, on the future Medicare costs. A study by [...]

While cost may still be the most important criterion, the nation's employers increasingly factor in quality when purchasing health care for their workers, according to the Second Annual Study on [...]

Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Edward Kennedy have joined forces in a bipartisan effort to expand health care insurance coverage for kids. Under their proposal, the Federal government, in cooperation [...]

Sixty percent of U.S. hospitals and other health care institutions reduced their work forces during the past two years, according to a survey by Manchester Partners International. Fifty-four percent of [...]

Employers that contract with health maintenance organizations incur health care costs that are 4 percent lower than the national average. That's the finding from a survey of nearly 4,000 employers [...]

A more modest program is addressing the problem of uninsured children in California. Called CaliforniaKids, the program offers preventive and primary health care services to uninsured children. Participants in the [...]

The latest report from the Congressional Budget Office contains good news for lawmakers trying to reduce the budget deficit. Forecasts by the CBO show lower-than-expected federal spending for Medicare and [...]

President Clinton is looking for ways to expand health insurance coverage for children. One plan under consideration would reportedly give states an additional $750 million a year to provide health [...]

Changes in Medicare reimbursement sought by the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission could have a significant impact on the bottom lines of teaching hospitals. Coupled with a recommendation to freeze Medicare [...]

Drug errors are costing the nation's hospitals millions of dollars. According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, it's not uncommon for a large [...]

Disease management has the potential for producing dramatic results. That's the conclusion of a study by Humana and Cardiac Solutions, a Chicago-based firm. In a congestive heart failure program that [...]

Health maintenance organizations have come under sharp attack in New York. At a recent health care forum, Lt. Governor Betsy McCaughey-Ross called abuses by HMOs the 'single largest health care [...]