Chelsey Ledue
Patients continue to use emergency rooms for conditions that could be treated in an urgent care setting, according to the Centers for Disease Control's National Health Statistics Reports.
Compensation for practice management professionals has remained static since last year, according to the Medical Group Management Association.
Farmington Hills, Mich., physician Jose Castro-Ramirez has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in a Medicare fraud scheme.
Hospitals differ in how they detect and treat drug-resistant staph infections, but most follow national guideline recommendations, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced grant awards of $46 million for 45 States and the District of Columbia to help improve the oversight of proposed health insurance premium increases.
The Commonwealth Employment Relations Board held a hearing last week on a formal complaint it had issued against Cambridge Health Alliance in July, citing the organization for "bargaining in bad faith and depriving nurses of their union rights" following CHA's decision to "prematurely cease negotiations, declare impasse and unilaterally slash nurses' retiree health benefit."
Eight people have been arrested for their participation in a Manhattan-based drug ring that used Medicaid funds to pay for the operation. A ninth accomplice remains at large.
Occupancy rates fell for independent living and rose for assisted living in the second quarter of 2010, while the pace of rent growth slowed markedly, according to a recent analysis.
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York, the nation's largest not-for-profit home healthcare organization, is set to acquire the Long Term Home Health Care (Lombardi) Program from St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center.
The American Medical Association Foundation has awarded Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarships to 20 fourth-year medical students.