No healthcare plan also means no renewal of PHC4
Legislators failed to renew the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
Future of PHC4 still uncertain
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
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
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Standard-Speaker: Choose public good over politics and reauthorize PHC4
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?
Governor Rendell issues an Executive Order to extend authorization of the state’s health data collection agency.
Autism, PHC4 bills and the budget
An update on the healthcare bills’ merry-go-round existence.
UPDATE: Fate of PHC4 still shaky
An update on the debate surrounding the renewal of the PA Health Care Cost Containment Council.
UPDATE: PHC4
Update on the fate of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
Two editorials call for reauthorization of PHC4
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.