Public, private doctors to compete under gov't plan
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If the government gets its way, more than a million patients will be operated on by surgeons from the private rather than public health sector.
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A major shake-up in the way doctors are regulated in the UK is to be outlined by ministers.
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FREDERICK, Md. -- Doctors in Maryland and around the country are increasingly using methods popularized by labor organizers to counter rising premiums for malpractice coverage.
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Some federal doctors and medical researchers do not enjoy the same protections to disclose wrongdoing as other government employees, the judge ruled.
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TORONTO -- The government is moving ahead with its revised proposal to Ontario&#39;s doctors because the latest changes address concerns raised by doctors who earlier rejected the deal, Health Minister George Smitherman said Monday.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 19, 2004 - Insurers and drug makers are battling over how the government should set rules for insurers to use in deciding which medicines to cover in the Medicare prescription drug program.
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TORONTO - Ontario doctors rejected a salary deal with the province over the weekend. But the government says the deal with the doctors is only one part of its plan to transform health care.
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees is preparing for a showdown with the Ontario Government. CUPE was quick to react after Health Minister George Smitherman said Ontario hospitals should look for savings in their janitorial and clerical services.
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Nearly 2 million low-income Medicare participants could be switched to different insurance plans for their prescription drug coverage next year
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Doctors and lawyers have warred for years over why medical malpractice insurance rates are so high. Tuesday, they got a sense of what the public thinks.
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Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to \
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A major obstacle to the success of the new Medicare law has emerged in recent weeks: Private insurers have told the Bush administration they will not expand their Medicare role
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A doctors group expects a serious shortfall of family physicians in at least five states by 2020.
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British heart doctors are fighting an effort to end government coverage for drug-coated heart stents.
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The Ontario government is adamant it will push ahead with its agenda to improve health care despite a sound rejection of a proposed landmark deal by the province&#39;s doctors.
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Gov. Martin O'Malley and Democratic legislative leaders yesterday proposed providing health insurance to 100,000 poor uninsured adults in Maryland and subsidizing small businesses that offer coverage to their employees.
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GREENWOOD, Miss. -- A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.