Chelsey Ledue
The healthcare industry can save up to $35 billion by bringing banks into the dialogue about the healthcare financial network of the future.
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center, a Long Island, N.Y.-based hospital, has agreed to pay $2.92 million, plus interest, to settle allegations of Medicare fraud.
Research suggests that Medicare beneficiaries with chronic diseases who consume the least of their benefits and services (referred to as "low consumers") and potentially under manage their disease may experience an acute event that requires costly emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
A strong majority of opinion leaders say nurses should have more influence on U.S. healthcare policy, planning and management, according to a recent national survey.
More than 1,750 companies and organizations hired a total of about 4,525 lobbyists to influence health reform bills in 2009, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity.
The Golden, Colo.-based healthcare ratings organization examined objective patient outcomes over three years at all 5,000 of the nation’s non-federal hospitals.
One in four dollars spent on healthcare in America pays for unnecessary tests and treatments that physicians order to keep from being sued, according to a new Gallup poll.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $100 million in federal grants to 18 states to improve healthcare quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Nearly 3.3 million more people were enrolled in state Medicaid programs in June 2009 compared to the previous June, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has unveiled a new report, "Insurance Companies Prosper, Families Suffer: Our Broken Health Insurance System."