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By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 17, 2008
Michigan's nonprofit community hospitals provided nearly $2.6 billion in direct patient care services and targeted outreach to those who could not afford it in fiscal year 2007, according to a report...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 16, 2008
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services will provide $2 million in individual assistance for victims of Hurricane Ike from affected counties in Texas through a new Emergency Prescription As...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 15, 2008
The respiratory disposables and reusable respiratory accessories market is undergoing a dramatic change caused in part by a recent government regulation that bans the use of chlorofluorocarbon in inha...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 15, 2008
Miami physicians Carlos Contreras, MD, and Ramon Pichardo, MD, pled guilty last week to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with a $6.8 million HIV infusion fraud scheme.Contreras,...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 12, 2008
Five years after the implementation of extensive medical liability reforms, Texas hospitals report major reductions in liability costs and reinvestment of savings in new patient-oriented programs....
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 11, 2008
Officials at Provena Covenant Medical Center are seeking an Illinois Supreme Court review of a ruling by a state's appellate court which reversed an earlier order to restore the religious and charitab...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | August 25, 2008
USC Care Medical Group, Inc., an academic physicians group affiliated with the University of Southern California, has licensed a unified business software system to support an organization-wide initia...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | August 14, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Thursday that all physician groups participating in the Physician Group Practice Demonstration have earned $16.7 million in incentive payment...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | August 08, 2008
Life sciences companies globally are turning to e-clinical solutions in order to improve inefficiencies and cut costs during the most expensive phase of drug development, says a new report.Th...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | August 01, 2008
Dealing with decreased payments from Medicare and insurers was cited as the biggest concern of healthcare providers in a recent survey by data and network service provider IVANS, Inc. To help...