Kaisernetwork.org – Dec. 15, 2008. President-elect Barack Obama’s HHS secretary nominee — former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), who Obama also named as director of a new White House Office of Health Reform — “has put a premium on cooperation between the White House, Congress and major health care interest groups” in the overhaul […]

AMA News headlines – Dec. 15, 2008. Despite the setback, states are anticipating changes under the new administration that would allow health coverage expansions to continue. Read Full Article

AMA News headlines – Dec. 15, 2008. The agency is seeking comments on which physicians should forego Medicare pay under the policy and what related complications might qualify as errors. Read Full Article

HFMA News – Dec. 15, 2008. At the request of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) has prepared a report titled HHS in the 21st Century assessing whether the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is ?ideally organized? to meet […]

HFMA News – Dec. 12, 2008. As expected, President-elect Barack Obama made official his nomination of former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as Secretary of Health & Human Services on Thursday, Dec. 11. He also named Daschle as director of a new White House Office on Health Care Reform. Dr. Jeanne Lambrew, who authored a book […]