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Despite many patients desire to avoid hospitalizations and intensive care as they are dying, more apparently are spending their final days in the hospital.
News outlets report on developments in internet processing of insurance claims and electronic health records.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Monday's opinions and editorials from around the country.
Medicare officials turn to a fraud investigation model developed by regulators overseeing the stimulus funds.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the latest on the Senate's stalemate regarding the COBRA subsidy extension and enhanced Medicaid funding for states.
News outlets examine how states are coping with covering hard-to-insure people, confusion about insuring young adults and a COBRA subsidy extension.
Last night, the House approved, 417-1, a Senate bill staving off a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors. Some lawmakers grumbled the bill doesn't go far enough.
Reports cover workforce and conflict-of-interest issues.
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that health insurer WellPoint's investor-relations head said Thursday that U.S. health insurers are "moving towards an oligopoly" accelerated by health reform.
"A federal jury Thursday found a Kansas doctor and his wife guilty of conspiring to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to dozens of patients who later died, in a case highlighting medical treatment of chronic pain sufferers and prescription drug abuse," the Associated Press reported.
States address a range of health care policy issues.
News outlets report on policies in the drug and tobacco industries.
A Pennsylvania Department of Health report released Thursday has found that fewer patients contracted infections in the hospital in 2009 than a year earlier, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
After a bill to extend jobs and economic relief programs failed for a third time in the Senate Thursday, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he would withdraw the bill.
World Customs Organization (WCO) Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya on Thursday signed a declaration vowing his group's commitment to crack down on the counterfeit drug industry, PBS NewsHour's "The Rundown" blog reports. The piece examines the growing threat of counterfeit medications and efforts to clamp down on the distribution of such drugs (Miller, 6/24).
A report from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company said "global businesses cannot afford to ignore the potential" in African economies, the New York Times reports.
Ahead of the G8 summit, which begins Friday in Canada, "leaders engaged in a series of dueling letters and interviews that exposed their conflicts" in how to foster global economic recovery, the Associated Press reports. The G8
Some California hospitals are bolstering their technology investments in the hope of to reaping stimulus funds or finding new savings.
The U.N. Development Program (UNDP) together with UNAIDS on Thursday announced a commission formed to examine how legal environments affect HIV/AIDS efforts, VOA News reports (DeCapua, 6/24).
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