Kaisernetwork.org – Dec. 22, 2008. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Thursday signed into law a bill that will prohibit health care facilities from requiring mandatory overtime of staff, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The law, set to take effect in July 2009, seeks to protect health care facilities from forcing nurses, technicians, technologists, certified nursing […]

Kaisernetwork.org – Dec. 22, 2008. As part of his proposed two-year economic stimulus package of between $675 billion and $775 billion, President-elect Barack Obama seeks to create or save three million jobs, his transition team announced on Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reports (Nicholas, Los Angeles Times, 12/21). According to the New York Times, the […]

HFMA.org – Dec. 22, 2008. The right of federally funded healthcare providers to decline to participate in services to which they object has been affirmed in a final rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and published in the Federal Register. The final rule clarifies that non-discrimination protections apply to […]