Chelsey Ledue
Fewer medical malpractice payments were made on behalf of doctors in 2009 than in any previous year, according to the National Practitioner Data Bank.
While President Barack Obama makes a stop in Maine Thursday to support his recently passed healthcare reform bill, healthcare organizations in the state say they don't expect to hear anything new from his visit.
L.A. Care Health Plan's board of governors has awarded $500,000 to jump-start the planning process for a new Martin Luther King Hospital in south Los Angeles.
The number of Medicaid-subsidized inpatient hospital stays originating in the emergency room increased more than 6 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to SDI.
Tenet South Florida, a region of the Tenet Healthcare Corporation, has opened an on-site medical clinic at the BankAtlantic headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
A federal court has sentenced the owner and operator of a Los Angeles-area durable medical equipment company to prison in connection with an approximately $1 million power wheelchair fraud scheme.
A new report shows that between 2001 and 2006 a growing number of Americans faced a high financial burden from healthcare expenses.
Caritas Christi Health Care, a Massachusetts-based, six-hospital system serving more than 600,000 patients annually in 85 communities, has signed an agreement to be acquired by the Steward Healthcare System LLC, a newly formed affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., a New York-based private equity firm.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that Medicaid programs in six more states will receive federal matching funds for planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The American Association for Homecare says provisions in the new health reform law will harm homecare patients and providers.