Chelsey Ledue
Kaiser NW has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle Justice Department charges that it violated the False Claims Act.
People with diabetes still carry some of the United State's highest healthcare expenses, according to a report released by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
A new survey by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare finds that veterans face significant barriers to accessing mental health and substance abuse treatment despite the fact that the Veterans Mental Health Act was signed into law more than a year ago.
The Department of Health and Human Services is making available up to $9 million for state survey agencies in 43 states to help reduce healthcare-associated infections in stand-alone or same-day surgical centers.
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation of CVS Caremark over allegations that the two-year-old company is squeezing the prescription drug distribution market for savings while not passing these savings on to plans and patients.
Riverside Radiology Associates has renewed its licensing contract for five years for Zotec Partners’ Electronic Billing Center (EBC) billing suite, RIS and Decision Support module after it cut billing costs by more than half with the software over the past five years.
According to a recent survey, about three out of every four doctors feel they now have less control over the way they practice medicine than they did five years ago.
In the midst of a round one re-bid cycle for Medicare’s durable medical equipment competitive bidding process, a bill calling for its elimination has been introduced in the House of Representatives.
The new head of the American Academy of Family Physicians says he’s ready to make sure that ongoing healthcare reform efforts in Washington will help physicians, rather than make matters worse.
The Commonwealth Fund recently ranked New York dead last in the nation for avoidable hospital expenses, but new loans available to low-income areas of the state are aimed at solving that.