Chelsey Ledue

The Department of Health and Human Services, the Administration on Aging and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have launched a national education effort to ensure that seniors have the information they need to protect themselves from potential scams or fraud.

The new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, established by the recent healthcare reform legislation, must be "inclusive and flexible in developing and implementing payment initiatives" in order to improve healthcare delivery and reduce spending.

Most of the 13.7 million uninsured young adults in the U.S. could gain coverage under the health reform law, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund.

Doctors are using “defensive medicine” as a way to avoid medical malpractice lawsuits, a policy some believe is increasing healthcare costs.

The United Health Foundation will provide a three-year, $3.3 million grant to Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans to help support and expand the new Daughters of Charity Health Center-St. Cecilia.

With health reform in the works, the importance of community health centers is growing, according to the authors of a study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The goal of one of this year’s HFMA ANI sessions is to “get practices to think a little bit differently when trying to reduce costs.”

A new law in Pennsylvania will allow more patients to collaborate with pharmacists on their medication programs, which is expected to improve health and save money.

Two hospitals and a heart device manufacturer have paid nearly $4 million to the federal government over charges the manufacturer paid kickbacks to the hospitals to secure business.

Hospital-owned practices were the most successful in attracting physicians in 2009, according to the Medical Group Management Association.