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By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | January 09, 2009
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved the Missouri Department of Social Services' request to expand women's health services to uninsured women ages 18-55 with income up to 185 pe...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | January 08, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has notified more than 3,000 of the nation's hospitals that they will receive the full payment update for calendar year 2009 as part of the new Hospita...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | January 07, 2009
According to a December 2008 survey conducted by the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, the state's hospitals are being hurt by the national recession, and patients are feeling t...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | January 05, 2009
The state of New Jersey has awarded Unisys with a contract extension that continues the technology company's role as the state's Medicaid fiscal agent and Medicaid Management Information System provid...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | January 05, 2009
Grady Memorial Hospital is considering a proposal to increase medical costs to some uninsured patients and acknowledged that it could cut off some people from free care.According to reports i...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 22, 2008
South Florida's Broward Health system has received a gift of more than $4.5 million for the construction of a women's health pavilion at Broward General Medical Center.The Lillian S. Wells Foundati...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 22, 2008
The University of Connecticut Health Center and Hartford Hospital are preparing to seek legislative approval in January for a $475 million, 250-bed hospital to replace UConn's John Dempsey Hospital in...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 22, 2008
Cleveland Clinic chief executive officer Toby Cosgrove, MD, has told employees that the health system has instituted a hiring and salary freeze.The freeze does not affect employees needed for direc...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 19, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week released quality ratings for each of the nation's 15,800 nursing homes that participate in Medicare or Medicaid.For the first time i...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | December 18, 2008
In response to recent reductions in service payments from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston Medical Center is cutting $61.5 million from its budget.The magnitude of the reduced payments...