Stephanie Bouchard
Christine Cassel, MD, long-time president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation is stepping down at the end of her current term in July 2013, ABIM announced on Friday.
Known across the globe as an expert on and an advocate for palliative care, geriatrician Diane Meier is also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a $500,000 unrestricted grant given to individuals who show extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits.
As president and CEO of one of the country's largest healthcare organizations, Susan DeVore has pushed for cost-effective and high-quality care as well as set an example for the importance of ethical business standards.
As the job market for the healthcare sector continues to steam along, there's a smudge on the bright horizon: Healthcare organizations lack leadership strategy.
Helen Darling has dedicated her career to promoting healthcare quality and helping businesses be smarter about healthcare.
Watchers of a February broadcast of “60 Minutes” may have been stunned to learn that studies have been conducted that seem to prove that antidepressants, on the whole, are no more effective than placebo.
About six years ago, Anne Peters, MD, an internist practicing in southern California, started receiving calls from doctors in her area. They told her their patients were reporting that she was billing Medicare for procedures she had done for them – things like brain scans and surgery – procedures she didn’t do.
By the time this issue of Healthcare Finance News is published, the U.S. Supreme Court will have heard arguments on the Affordable Care Act. Since the announcement that the court would take the case, we’ve covered in print and online how the case could play out with the court, as have analysts across the country. Looking for new – slightly off-kilter – perspectives on the much-debated law and case, we’ve reached out to comedians for their take on it.
Just before the nationwide PBS release of his new documentary, “U.S. Health Care: the Good News,” author T.R. Reid talked to Associate Editor Stephanie Bouchard about the documentary and the healthcare issues facing the nation. Here is an excerpt from that February conversation. Go to www.healthcarefinancenews.com to read our two-part series.
There are many "first woman to" accomplishments on Christine Cassel's resume but she is best known as an expert on geriatric medicine and a proponent of professional certification.