Chelsey Ledue

The Obama administration has dropped a proposal that would force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who suffered service-related disabilities and injuries.

Vice President Joe Biden has announced that the Department of Health and Human Services will award $100 million in Recovery Act funding to provide meals to tens of thousands of low-income older Americans.

Abington Memorial Hospital is replacing 26 disparate systems from various vendors with a single end-to-end revenue management system from McKesson in an effort to streamline workflow and make processes more seamless and efficient.

The Loving Care Agency, Inc., a provider of pediatric skilled nursing and home health aide services, has acquired six homecare branches from Gentiva Health Services, Inc.

Forty percent of Americans are giving the U.S. healthcare system a failing grade, according to a new study.

MVP Healthcare and Excellus BlueCross BlueShield will work with primary care physicians in the Rochester, N.Y. area to improve the way patients receive care.

Citing the turbulent economy and its reeling effects on south-central Indiana, St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers announced late last week the postponement of construction at the inpatient bed tower at its Indianapolis campus.

Almost 50 New Jersey physicians will receive their first incentives through Bridges to Excellence.

Twenty-one percent of U.S. residents reported difficulty paying for needed medical care or medications in December 2008, up from 18 percent that January, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia to manage a new $19 million program called Public Health Law Research.