Richard Pizzi
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan plans to cut as many as 1,000 jobs and seek state approval to raise rates on its individual health insurance products.
A new survey of community clinics in California reveals that the statewide shortage of allied health workers is putting a great strain on these nonprofit health organizations.
The Rite Aid Corporation and nine subsidiaries in eight states have agreed to pay $5 million in civil penalties to settle allegations of violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act.Ac...
Employment at U.S. hospitals rose 0.25 percent in December 2008 to a seasonally adjusted 4,711,300 people, according to a report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics last week.The repo...
The University of Chicago Medical Center will undergo a major restructuring that will trim $100 million in expenses - equivalent to 7 percent of its annual budget - and include the elimination of top...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...