Richard Pizzi

The Connecticut Department of Public Health has imposed an $8,000 fine on Yale-New Haven Hospital for infractions state inspectors found during unannounced visits.The state's Department of Pu...

CHAMPAIGN, IL - Officials at Provena Covenant Medical Center are seeking the Illinois Supreme Court's review of a state appellate court ruling which reversed an earlier order to restore the religious...

The National Institutes of Health, a branch of the Department of Health & Human Services, has awarded a $19 million contract for regulatory affairs support to the Science Applications Internationa...

Texas Health Resources, the largest healthcare system in North Texas, has been awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to help employers address the problems their employees may face due to fam...

According to a study published in the latest issue of the [italics] Journal of the Ame...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced $36 million in new grant programs to 28 states to help senior citizens and veterans remain independent and to support people with Alzheim...

National retail pharmacy chain Walgreens has paid the United States government and four participating states $9.9 million to resolve allegations of falsely billing the Medicaid program.Walgre...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has scheduled a series of national provider calls that will offer an overview of ICD-10 and how it differs from ICD-9-CM.The presentations will...

Congress has approved $20 million for a new lung cancer research program at the Department of Defense. The program, entitled the Peer Reviewed Lung Cancer Research Program, will be administered and fu...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week its approval of the first new hospital accreditation organization in more than 30 years.The decision allows DNV Healt...