Chelsey Ledue

The Texas Health Care Association has urged the state's federal lawmakers to ensure the interests of their oldest, most vulnerable constituents are protected as the reform debate escalates.

The new chairman of the National Governors Association has launched his own initiative for healthcare reform.

Washington residents have saved more than $2.6 million on prescription medications since the launch of the free statewide prescription assistance program.

The state of New York and New York City have agreed to pay $540 million to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted, or caused submission of, false claims for reimbursement for school-based healthcare services provided to Medicaid-eligible children from 1990 to 2001.

Grants for nursing education have been awarded to seven California community college-university partnerships.

Hospitals in the Los Angeles market are struggling to recruit physicians, particularly sub-specialists, to be on-call to provide emergency care.

According to the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, the largest all-payer emergency department database in the United States, uninsured persons accounted for nearly one-fifth of the 120 million hospital-based emergency department visits in 2006.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released a report that highlights Nebraska's WISEWOMAN program, a community intervention program funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that helps prevent heart disease and stroke by providing screenings and counseling for low-income women.

Endoscopic Technologies, Inc. (Estech) will pay $1.4 million to resolve civil claims of alleged promotion of its surgical ablation devices.

President Barack Obama has nominated Regina M. Benjamin as the nation's new surgeon general.