Chelsey Ledue

The Carolinas HealthCare System has introduced a wellness plan that will pay employees to enhance their health and fitness.

Women are more likely than men to feel the pinch of rising health costs and eroding health benefits, a new Commonwealth Fund study finds.

AMPM, Inc., has announced a long-term contract to provide medical billing services for the Seton Family of Hospitals Community Health Centers in Austin, Texas.

The newly introduced “Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2009" would, if passed, increase the number of Medicare-supported training positions for medical residents by 15 percent, or approximately 15,000 slots.

Two senators have introduced the “STOP” Act (S. 975), which targets Medicare waste, fraud and abuse.

The Commonwealth Fund, along with eight others, is launching a national Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, which will provide $6 million over four years to help 68 community health centers in five states become patient-centered medical homes.

At a speech before the United Nurses of America's 12th National Nurses Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius challenged hospitals to work to reduce healthcare associated infections.

St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston, Texas, has sold approximately 39,000 outstanding patient accounts to Conifer Revenue Cycle Solutions, Inc.

Now that tax season is over, it’s time for physician practices to start saving receipts and filing records again. There are more than 400 possible deductions that practices can take, although most physicians only know of a few common ones.

Physician compensation for medical directorships in non-hospital-owned group practices is greater than in hospital-owned practices for all specialties except primary care, according to the Medical Group Management Association’s “Medical Directorship/On Call Compensation Survey: 2009 Report Based on 2008 Data.”