Chelsey Ledue
A patient recruiter for a Houston-based home healthcare company has pled guilty in connection with a $5.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
Healthcare organizations are using locum tenens physicians when they need to maintain services/revenue while permanent candidates are sought, according to a recent National Association of Community Health Centers Web seminar.
After three years of stagnant business, America's healthcare system is seeing another round of consolidation, with clinical integration leading the way.
Healthcare reform is a hot topic at this years’ Medical Group Management Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. Everyone is playing the waiting game, but much speculation has been heard during educational sessions.
Two Miami healthcare companies and four owners and senior managers of the companies have been indicted on charges of participating in a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme involving mental health services.
Americans' confidence in their ability to obtain and afford healthcare rose for the second consecutive month in September, according to a consumer sentiment index produced by Thomson Reuters.
The third quarter of 2010 saw $66.5 billion in healthcare mergers and acquisitions activity, up 47 percent from the $45.1 billion spent in the previous quarter, according to a new report from Irving Levin Associates.
The Department of Justice has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, alleging that provisions of its agreements with hospitals raise hospital prices, prevent other insurers from entering the marketplace and discourage discounts.
The nation could save about $3.5 trillion over the next 25 years by expanding coordinated care programs in Medicare and Medicaid, according to a new analysis by the UnitedHealth Group's Center for Health Reform & Modernization.
New Century Hospice, a Texas-based hospice care provider, has closed $20 million in Series A financing to continue its expansion of stand-alone hospice care centers in Texas and neighboring states.