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The Cleveland Clinic will close East Cleveland's Huron Hospital within 90 days because of a decline in patients and the expense of maintaining one of the city's oldest healthcare facilities.
ikaSystems, a provider of cloud computing technology for the payer market, and NASCO, which specializes in IT tools to support Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, have partnered to bring faster, more efficient and accurate Medicare processes to NASCO Plan customers.
Middle-income Americans nearing retirement are most concerned about rising healthcare costs during their retirement years, according to a study by the Bankers Life and Casualty Center for a Secure Retirement.
Atlanta-based Gentiva Health Services, one of the country's largest providers of home health services, has agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle claims that it fraudulently billed Medicare for costs related to company sales efforts, announced the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn.
Thomson Reuters plans to sell off its healthcare division, the company announced Monday.
Roy K. Malkin, president and chief executive officer of Minneapolis-based medical devices company, Minntech Corporation, was injured in a plane crash Saturday evening.
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched the Federally Qualified Health Center Advanced Primary Care Practice demonstration project, an Affordable Care Act initiative that will pay an estimated $42 million over three years to as many as 500 health centers to coordinate care for Medicare patients.
The U.S. healthcare sector continued to expand even as the rest of the economy struggled, with employment increasing in May by approximately 17,400 positions.
State policymakers have more options than they may realize under the Affordable Care Act in how they create health insurance exchanges, according to a new white paper from the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives proposes to set minimum education and certification standards for technical personnel providing, planning and delivering medical imaging exams and radiation therapy treatments in the Medicare program.