Rene Letourneau
President Barack Obama has requested $54.9 billion in healthcare funding for the Department of Veterans' Affairs for fiscal year 2012 and $56.7 billion for fiscal year 2013, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office in June.
Two Brooklyn, N.Y., pharmacists were arrested on Wednesday on healthcare fraud charges for their alleged participation in a scheme to defraud Medicare Part D of more than $3 million, announced the Department of Justice, FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The United States continues to lead industrialized nations in healthcare spending, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.
All healthcare spending in the United States is projected to grow at an annual average rate of 5.8 percent for the period 2010 through 2020, according to a report released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
This article looks at how four healthcare providers are trimming the fat since PrivewaterhouseCoopers reported the nation's healthcare system loses $1.2 trillion a year.
At its annual conference, being held this year in Chicago from Aug. 14-17, the Association of Staff Physician Recruiters will address how healthcare organizations can successfully recruit and retain physicians in an increasingly competitive market.
Employee training is the key to avoiding a costly security breach, according to an executive in the Fraud Solutions division at risk mitigation company Kroll.
The Institute of Medicine made recommendations last week for eight preventive services for women that health plans should be required to cover without a co-payment or cost sharing under the Affordable Care Act.
The Apps Against Abuse challenge, a national competition to develop an app that provides young adults with tools to prevent sexual assault and dating violence, was launched recently by Vice President Joe Biden, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
It's going to be a record-breaking year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the healthcare industry, according to a recent report from Irving Levin Associates.