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By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 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 | 12:00 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 Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | September 15, 2008
A name change and the acquisition of a Texas-based software company have officials at Dairyland Healthcare Solutions thinking big while hoping to keep their rural roots.Officials at the 28-ye...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | September 15, 2008
Kan-ed, a statewide information network administered by the Kansas Board of Regents, has named 94 organizations as recipients of equipment and technology grants. Kan-ed has so far awarded $2....
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | September 12, 2008
Kindred Healthcare, Inc., a Louisville, Ky.-based healthcare services company, has announced plans to dispose of two of its unprofitable long-term acute care hospitals.Kindred has signed a $2...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | September 12, 2008
Seven states have received $8.3 million in federal grants to increase awareness of home- and community-based long-term care options for people leaving hospitals who otherwise may enter a traditional n...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 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 Diana Manos | 12:00 am | September 12, 2008
A growing number of providers and health plans surveyed by the eHealth Initiative report a positive return on their healthcare exchange investments, according to eHi's fifth annual survey, released Th...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 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 Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | September 11, 2008
According to a national survey of insurers and administrators, costs for the most popular types of healthcare coverage are projected to increase at double-digit rates through the remainder of 2008 and...