Chelsey Ledue
Reimbursement has many practices in a tight spot, but one cancer care center in New York City has learned to control it using Waltham, Mass.-based IntrinsiQ’s IntelliDose and IntelliCharge.
Four national organizations representing dentists, physicians and veterinarians have called on the Federal Trade Commission to exclude health professionals from controversial new regulations intended to combat identity theft.
Federal stimulus funding provided in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has helped safety net providers weather the economic storm, partially offsetting reductions in state, local and private funding.
Kaiser Permanente is offering more than $300,000 in scholarships and $1 million in forgiveness loans to high school, college and medical and nursing students to finance their higher education.
Drexel University College of Medicine and the College of Nursing & Health Professions have opened the Drexel Convenient Care Center at the Shops at Liberty Place in Philadelphia.
Between September 2008 and September 2009 the nation's top eight health insurance plans saw membership decline by 1.7 million.
A Detroit jury has convicted Troy, Mich., physician Toe Myint of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme.
The American Academy of Family Physicians says that proposed meaningful use regulations would pose hurdles that challenge small- and medium-size medical practices’ ability to achieve incentive payments for the use of electronic health records.
St. Luke’s Hospital & Health Network has purchased 10 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources, avoiding more than $1 million in annual electricity purchase costs through a competitive electronic procurement process run on the World Energy Exchange.
Physician, senior and military groups gathered Thursday in a five-city event to urge the permanent repeal of the broken Medicare physician payment formula that, they say, threatens access to care for millions who depend on Medicare and TRICARE.