Rene Letourneau
Five percent of patients account for nearly half of U.S. healthcare spending, according to a new report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The U.S. government has filed suit seeking $150 million in damages and penalties under the False Claims Act against Universal Imaging, Inc. and its current and former owners, Phillip J. Young and Mark Lauhoff, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced late last week.
HealthyWage, a company offering Americans a chance to place bets on their ability to lose weight using any diet and fitness program they choose, announced Tuesday that it paid out over $450,000 in 2011.
The Q4 HWS Labor Market Pulse Index (LMPI), a quarterly barometer of local market healthcare workforce fluctuations released Monday, shows a 6 percent uptick in near-term demand for healthcare workers in 30 key U.S. markets.
Healthcare employment continued to increase in December, growing by 23,000, according to a report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The U.S. market for orthopedic biomaterials will grow at an average of just under 7 percent per year, to total approximately $4 billion by 2016, predicts medical technology market research firm Millennium Research Group (MRG).
Robert Aquino, former CEO of Parkway Hospital in Queens, NY, pleaded guilty earlier this week to bribing former state senator Carl Kruger to obtain his help in keeping the hospital open.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that a new Affordable Care Act rule requiring electronic funds transfers will reduce administrative costs for doctors and hospitals, private health plans, states and other government health plans by $4.5 billion over the next 10 years.
A federal judge ruled last week to block California's plan to cut Medicaid payments to hospitals by 10 percent.
Contrary to federal law, CMS accepted $15.1 million in gross drug costs for prescriptions written by excluded providers from 2006 to 2008 under the Medicare Part D program, according to a recent report from the Office of Inspector General.