No healthcare plan also means no renewal of PHC4

October 9th, 2008

Legislators failed to renew the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

Future of PHC4 still uncertain

October 1st, 2008

Adding to the list of issues that many are pushing to be addressed before the end of the fall legislative session is the renewal of the healthcare watchdog organization Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

Heart surgery death rate down in PA

September 18th, 2008

According to PHC4, the mortality rate for heart-bypass surgery patients in PA declined in 2006 to its lowest level in more than a decade.

Health Care Cost Containment Council - Meeting Notices

August 29th, 2008

http://www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol38/38-35/1610.html

Standard-Speaker: Choose public good over politics and reauthorize PHC4

August 25th, 2008

Today, the Standard Speaker editorialized that the Legislature’s political tug-of-war over the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) needs to end promptly in reauthorization this fall — in the name of public good and patient safety.

PHC4 Saved…For Now?

July 9th, 2008

Governor Rendell issues an Executive Order to extend authorization of the state’s health data collection agency.

Autism, PHC4 bills and the budget

July 2nd, 2008

An update on the healthcare bills’ merry-go-round existence.

UPDATE: Fate of PHC4 still shaky

July 1st, 2008

An update on the debate surrounding the renewal of the PA Health Care Cost Containment Council.

UPDATE: PHC4

June 27th, 2008

Update on the fate of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

Two editorials call for reauthorization of PHC4

June 23rd, 2008

Today, two PA newspapers– Harrisburg’s Patriot-News and the Philadelphia Inquirer– editorialized that it is necessary to re-authorize the Pennsylvanian Health Care Cost Containment Council, before the deadline on July 1.