Chelsey Ledue

A new report shows that healthcare reform could create up to 4 million new jobs.

AmeriCares has been awarded a $650,000 grant to expand its domestic medical assistance services to more than 250 health clinics serving the uninsured and underinsured throughout the nation.

The Mercy Primary Care Center has received $300,000 to expand access to healthcare for the uninsured in Detroit.

Nominal health spending in the United States grew 4.4 percent in 2008 to $2.3 trillion, or $7,681 per person – the slowest rate of growth since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services started officially tracking expenditures in 1960.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched its fifth annual healthcare provider satisfaction survey for Medicare fee-for-service contractors who process and pay more than $370 billion in Medicare claims each year.

Nearly $2 million will be paid by hospitals in Minnesota and Texas to settle allegations of False Claim Act violations, according to the Justice Department.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that Medicaid programs in Tennessee and Pennsylvania will receive federal matching funds for state planning activities to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

UT Southwestern Medical Center has debuted a new Practice Management Institute (PMI) certification track for medical office professionals at the Dallas campus.

The American College of Cardiology has filed a lawsuit against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over pending Medicare physician payment cuts.

Advantage RN has announced plans to acquire TeamStaff Rx, a travel nursing and allied healthcare subsidiary, from parent company TeamStaff, Inc., a provider of healthcare and logistical staffing services.