Chelsey Ledue

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded Pinnacle Business Solutions, Inc. (PBSI) a contract of up to five years for combined administration of Part A and Part B Medicare cla...

As part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force that has been operating in Miami since March 2007, three Miami-area brothers who allegedly financed 11 "corrupt" HIV infusion clinics and a physici...

Among the many efforts to delay the first round of the durable medical equipment competitive bidding program, a letter urging the delay has been circulated in the Senate by Sens. George Voinovich (R-O...

Medical tourism and medical student debt burden and its impact on the physician shortage, are two of the hot topics to be discussed at a five-day meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago...

Public health departments, hospitals and other health care organizations will receive $1.1 billion in aid from the Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen their ability to respond to pub...

Two letters signed by 132 members of the U.S. House of Representatives urge the leaders of the Ways and Means Committee and its subcommittee on health to delay the "controversial and flawed"...

BancTec, a provider of advanced, high volume document and payment processing services and solutions, has signed a five-year agreement with Enterprise Bank and Trust, a subsidiary of Enterprise Financi...

The Integrated Healthcare Association is planning to implement a statewide collection of comparative data, evaluate purchasing and payment systems and develop a new episode-based payment method for me...

Three Miami-area doctors and six others have been charged in four separate indictments for their roles in HIV infusion fraud schemes totaling $56 million, according to the Department of Justice Crimin...

Total U.S. healthcare spending could be reduced by an estimated $145 billion by 2015 if a plan proposed by America's Health Insurance Plans is followed, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.The propos...