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Richard Pizzi

By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 14, 2008
The Pennsylvania Department of Aging has urged older Pennsylvanians and other Medicare beneficiaries to attend local enrollment meetings designed to help them choose a federal Medicare Part D prescrip...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 13, 2008
University of Texas System regents have ordered layoffs of about 3,800 state employees at the UT Medical Branch at Galveston, attributing the action to financial losses stemming from Hurricane Ike....
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 13, 2008
New York University Langone Medical Center has received two gifts totaling $260 million to support a major expansion of the NYU hospital and medical school campus.Helen L. Kimmel, a long-time...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 12, 2008
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $364.9 million contract for phase IV construction of the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System's new 150-acre medical campus, the largest construct...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 12, 2008
Seattle Children's Hospital has released the final master plan and environmental impact statement for its proposed expansion.Seattle Children's submitted the plan Monday to the city-appointed...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 11, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama's plan to extend healthcare to uninsured Americans will be beneficial to hospitals, medical centers and hospital equipment makers, according to Moody's Investors Service....
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 11, 2008
American Medical Association members discussed how to enact permanent Medicare physician payment reform at the organization's semi-annual policy-making meeting Monday."Seniors and physic...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 10, 2008
Medicare and Medicaid payments to U.S. hospitals in 2007 fell $31.9 billion short of the cost of care provided to hospital patients insured by those programs, according to the latest American Hospital...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 10, 2008
The Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration has signed a five-year, $44 million deal with Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., to administer a Third Party Liability program for the state's Medicai...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 10, 2008
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose 0.22 percent in October to a seasonally adjusted 4,686,500 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week.Employment at hospitals grew 10,...