Stephanie Bouchard

After three years of steady but small improvements in health across the United States, a new survey finds that no progress was made in health improvement between 2010 and 2011.

Doctors are more stressed out than ever before says a new study by Physician Wellness Services (PWS) and Cejka Search and the impact of that increased stress is underestimated to the detriment of all.

Standard & Poor's removed six nursing homes from CreditWatch and affirmed their respective ratings on Wednesday.

As more and more employers are adjusting benefits plans to improve the health of their employees and reduce their healthcare costs, findings from the nonprofit Center for Health Value Innovation (CHVI) show that not only are employees not engaged, employers are spending money without paying attention to the results they are getting -- or aren't getting.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is stepping up the country's fight against obesity by adding Medicare coverage for preventive services to help reduce the epidemic. The new benefit will cover screening for obesity and counseling for eligible beneficiaries.

While much of the focus now is on Donald Berwick's replacement at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, some in the industry are reflecting on Berwick's departure and the larger issues it signifies: a political system that is too polarized to be effective.

The Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) has been given a $9 million grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to continue combating Medicare fraud.

One of the country's largest drugmakers, Merck, will pay nearly $1 billion to settle criminal and civil charges related to its marketing of the painkiller Vioxx the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Healthcare organizations may not pay attention to a recruitment report geared to recruiters, but there are insights to be gleaned from the Association of Staff Physician Recruiters’ (ASPR) 2011 In-House Physician Recruitment Benchmarking Report. Most important? Focus on workforce planning.

Kaiser Permanente is suing the California Nurses Association saying it violated terms of the current contract when the union authorized a sympathy strike last September.