Chelsey Ledue

Kaiser Permanente has approved more than 415 community benefit grants and donations totaling approximately $22 million during the second quarter of 2008. Funding will support community programs to enc...

Fogarty International Center, the global arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a $1.5 million-a-year grant program to fund domestic and overseas training of researchers to fight...

Lester E. Cox Medical Centers, a not-for-profit healthcare system headquartered in Springfield, Mo., has agreed to pay $60 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kick...

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, has proposed an overhaul of the Medicare physician payment system to prevent geographic adjusters from penalizing doc...

Eight Iowa hospitals would be given better treatment by the Medicare program and be put in a stronger position to provide healthcare services under legislation introduced Tuesday by Sen. Charles Grass...

Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has awarded more than $49 million in grants to 30 states to provide health insurance to residents who can't get conventional coverage because of the...

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed new efforts to promote access to higher-quality and more efficient healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries under the 2009 M...

Adequate financing, improving the quality of care services and developing an adequate, skilled workforce are some of the urgent challenges facing long-term care in the future, said respondents to the...

AUGUSTA, ME –Maine’s Dirigo Health Association has estimated savings of $190.2 million in 2007 – but associations around the state are disputing the DHA’s healthcare premium ta...

Electronic Data Systems' shareholders will request postponement of a July 31 shareholder meeting on the proposed sale of the company to Hewlett-Packard pending full disclosure and correction of defici...