Rene Letourneau
After finding the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) guilty of misconduct, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administrative law judge has recommended throwing out the results of the election last fall between the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and the SEIU for representation of 43,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in California.
Lawmakers introduced legislation yesterday designed to reverse a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that will allow middle-class early retirees to qualify for free Medicaid benefits.
Almost 300 school-based health center programs have been awarded a total of $95 million, announced HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Education Secretary Arne Duncan last week.
Advances in gene therapy and stem cell research are leading to double-digit annual sales growth in the orthopedic biomaterials market, according to the healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information.
Millions of Americans are not receiving needed dental care services because of "persistent and systemic" barriers that limit their access to oral healthcare, says a new report by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council.
A private equity group led by Apax Partners has agreed to buy San Antonio-based Kinetic Concepts, a publicly traded wound-care and tissue-regeneration company, for $6.3 billion, including debt.
Leonard Langman, MD, a neurologist who owned and operated a Brooklyn, N.Y., medical clinic, pleaded guilty Friday for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare and several other agencies, according to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
Physicians working under contract with the federal government practice less defensive medicine than their private sector peers, according to a new survey by Atlanta-based clinical staffing organization, Jackson Healthcare.
Spiraling healthcare expenditures paralleled by increasing healthcare costs and premium rates of medical care are creating a real and urgent need for reform in the medical technology sector worldwide, according to a new analysis from Frost & Sullivan.
In its June Health Tracking Poll, Kaiser Family Foundation found that Americans generally do not have confidence in Congress or private insurers to keep Medicare financially sound.