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By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 26, 2008
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Kerry Weems announced the 2009 Medicare prescription drug and Medicare Advantage plan options Thursday.Weems said 97 percent...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 26, 2008
Managed care tactics are changing these days and healthcare institutions need to be vigilant when dealing with denied claims, said an industry expert at the Maine Chapter of the Healthcare Financial M...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 25, 2008
Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., has agreed to pay the United States $3.85 million, plus interest, to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare."(The) settlement demonstra...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 25, 2008
A federal jury this week convicted the owner and operator of Pacific City Group, Inc., a Los Angeles-based durable medical equipment company, of defrauding the Medicare program of more than $1.1 milli...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 24, 2008
The HIV drug market, worth $9.3 billion in 2007, is expected to grow to $15.1 billion by 2017, driven by the increasing prevalence of HIV worldwide and the longer life expectancy of patients receiving...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 23, 2008
The cost of developing novel drugs grows annually, yet each year fewer such drugs are gaining regulatory approval. As a result, pharmaceutical companies are increasingly shifting prescription drugs to...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 22, 2008
International market analysis firm Datamonitor believes that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's pledge to increase investment in life science research will not only help the pharmaceutical and biotechnology...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 22, 2008
For the second year in a row, the Cardinal Health Foundation will award more than $1 million in funding to help U.S. hospitals, health systems and community health clinics improve patient safety and h...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 19, 2008
Reformed payment policies that honor the "full scope" of a family physician's work are essential to changing the U.S. healthcare system for the better, according to a leader in the movement...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 18, 2008
The U.S. healthcare system is "financially unsustainable" and must be reformed, said the incoming president of the American Academy of Family Physicians in a speech that set an energetic ton...