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Diana Manos

Diana Manos is Senior Editor for Healthcare IT News. Located in Washington, D.C., she covers policy and legislation issues surrounding healthcare IT. Follow Diana on Twitter @DManos_IT_News.

By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 19, 2007
WASHINGTON – The number of Americans without health insurance has risen by more than 2 million since 2005, and among them are 700,000 more uninsured children, the U.S. Census Bureau has announce...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 19, 2007
Peter Arnold, 67, is a stroke survivor from Chicago. He is disabled and suffers from seizures. On Aug. 14, Arnold wrote his Congressman and other federal leaders, hoping to bring to their attention th...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 19, 2007
WASHINGTON – A recent study released by the Government Accountability Office encourages the federal government to more closely watch spending under Medicare’s alternative HMO care plan, th...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 13, 2007
Eighty-seven percent of U.S. hospitals do not comply with recommended steps for preventing infections, according to a new study. A survey of 1,256 hospitals conducted by The Lea...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 12, 2007
Medicare officials say they lack the authority to recoup overpayments to providers under the Medicare Advantage program. The Government Accountability Office disagrees. In a re...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 10, 2007
Some states' efforts to reform health insurance have had "significant unintended consequences" over the past decade, according to a America's Health Insurance Plans. In a report...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 07, 2007
Experts at a recent policy briefing differed on the possible ill effects the private health insurance industry could face under expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program....
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 04, 2007
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said states should put an end to "free rides" when it comes to healthcare. At the Florida Medical Association annual conferenc...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | August 28, 2007
The number of Americans without health insurance has risen by more than two million since 2005 and among them are 700,000 more uninsured children, the U.S. Census Bureau has announced....
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | August 27, 2007
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week that it will begin recruiting for its post acute care payment reform demonstration to improve payments and incentives in the PAC settin...