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The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for a rapid, single-use test to detect Ebola virus.
Mothers and infants enrolled in the Strong Start birth centers model had $2,010 lower costs on average, 25 percent lower preterm birth rates and better birth outcomes than other comparable women enrolled in Medicaid.
A Montana ballot initiative that would have provided funding to continue Medicaid coverage for low-income adults beyond 2019 failed by a narrow margin Tuesday, with 47 percent of voters supporting the measure.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would streamline Medicaid and Children鈥檚 Health Insurance Program managed care regulations.
Los Robles Regional Medical Center treated 11 people injured during last night鈥檚 mass shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Ninety-three percent of all clinicians eligible for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System who participated in the 2017 Quality Payment Program will receive a positive payment adjustment in 2019.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to roll out its revised claim-review demonstration for Medicare fee-for-service home health services beginning Dec. 10 in Illinois.
Voters in Palo Alto and Livermore, Calif., Tuesday rejected union-backed municipal ballot measures that would have imposed an 鈥渁cceptable payment amount鈥 on the compensation hospitals and other medical providers can receive from insurers and certain other payers for the care provided to patients.
Nearly 2.4 million Americans are living with Hepatitis C and the amount of new infections each year is 鈥渄isturbingly high鈥 and growing.
The AHA鈥檚 American Society for Health Care Engineering presented its 2018 Excellence in Health Care Facility Management Award to NewYork-Presbyterian for its water safety management program.