Richard Pizzi

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) have asked the Government Accountability Office to study best practices used by states, hospitals and other c...

The Condell Health Network has agreed without litigation to pay the United States and the state of Illinois $36 million as a result of filing false claims for reimbursement.The health system volunt...

Humana Military Healthcare Services, a subsidiary of Humana Inc. and the TRICARE Contractor for the South Region announced that MinuteClinic services would be available to TRICARE beneficiaries in a n...

Cardinal Health and SRI/Surgical Express, Inc. have entered into a five-year supply and co-marketing agreement to offer surgical kits that include disposable healthcare products from Cardinal Health a...

HCA Virginia is one step closer to building a new 164-bed hospital in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., after the Loudon County (Va.) Planning Commission voted to approve the project.Construct...

The University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers is cutting 80 jobs in an ongoing attempt to improve its financial situation.Doug Strong, chief executive officer of UMHHC, said the emp...

Poudre Valley Health System, a private not-for-profit healthcare organization in northern Colorado, has won the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos...

A western Pennsylvania hospital has agreed to pay $1.9 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that alleged the hospital submitted reimbursement claims to Medicare that gre...

STERLING, IL – Hospitals leave too much money on the table in their dealings with payers, and need to get better at collecting what they’re owed.Kenny Koerner, director of patient...

WASHINGTON – Now that Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States and the Democrats have strengthened their control of Congress, what can hospitals expect from the federal gover...