Chelsey Ledue

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $4.3 billion in financial relief to states through reductions in payments that offset the cost of Medicare coverage for prescription drugs for Medicare and Medicaid eligible patients.

Over 26 percent of respondents to a poll on Sermo, the world’s largest online community for physicians, have admitted they had been forced to close, or are considering closing, their solo practice.

Medical practice leaders say they've had many problems reporting data for Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), according to the Medical Group Management Association.

Thomson Reuters and Ingenious Med are combining their clinical workflow offerings into a unified billing solution for hospitals and physician practices.

The Mayo Clinic is responsible for $22 billion in healthcare spending nationwide, according to a study conducted by the Battelle Memorial Institute.

The U.S. Department of Labor has released more than $225 million in healthcare and high growth training grants funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Health plans have launched an initiative to streamline the delivery of care by reducing the time, effort and expense for the paperwork required for each patient office visit.

Primary care physicians in Massachusetts are seeing measurable improvements in important aspects of healthcare quality, according to Massachusetts Health Quality Partners.

The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania is opposing Gov. Ed Rendell’s proposed 2010-2011 state budget, which could cut hospital Medicaid payments by nearly $31.9 million.

The New Jersey Physician Workforce Policy Task Force wants to prevent “an unprecedented shortfall” in the number of physicians in the state available to treat patients.