Chelsey Ledue

BOSTON – An estimated 49 percent of physicians plan to stop practicing or reduce their number of patients over the next three years, according to a survey conducted by The Physicians’ Foun...

MADISON WI – The Wisconsin Council for Medical Education and Workforce has launched a campaign to retain Wisconsin-trained physicians and bring back those with family or educational ties to the...

Real-time adjudication – a long-sought goal of physician practices – allows for the analysis of payments and rejections on the spot before a patient even leaves the office. In an...

King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Alpharma, Inc. have announced a merger agreement under which King will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock of Alpharma for $37 per share in cas...

THERE HAVE BEEN many battles on the community care front in 2008. Some are still unsettled, but for now things have slowed down.Just before the turn of the year, the Medicare, Medicaid and SC...

In some "very critical areas," Joint Commission-accredited hospitals have improved the quality of patient care over a six-year period, saving lives and improving the health of thousands of p...

THOUGH MOST PATIENTS would rather stay at their local hospital for any procedure, sizable increases in healthcare costs, co-payments and transparency efforts – coupled with high numbers of unins...

First-year enrollment at the nation's medical schools this year increased nearly 2 percent to more than 18,000 students - the highest enrollment in history, according to the Association of American Me...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded National Heritage Insurance Corporation a contract of up to five years for the administration of Part A and Part B Medicare claims payments...

Radiology costs, fairly stable since 2005, are rising again for insurers, according to HealthLeaders-InterStudy.In several recent reports in Health Plan Analysis, HealthLeaders-InterSt...