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A former chief financial officer for three different hospital networks is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly stealing more than $200,000 from health systems in Connecticut and Ohio.

Seventy-seven percent of payers expect a changing relationship with pharmaceutical companies, with 48 percent calling for pharmas to take a more active role in supporting payer managed care (DM, MU, adherence) programs according to a July 2010 poll by The Gantry Group, LLC.

Prices for products used by healthcare providers will rise 3.1 percent on the national market in the next six months, according to a new report by the healthcare supply contracting company Novation.

Five primary care facilities that operate in underserved communities in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens are expected to save approximately $3.8 million through a tax-exempt bond issue to refinance nearly $30 million of loans.

More companies may be putting healthcare benefits in the hands of their employees, but only 28 percent of employers are educating them on how to choose their benefits.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's plan to re-open a financially troubled hospital is a bid to help a town in need of better healthcare services and an economic shot in the arm.

Federally funded program to run alongside state-run program.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced the expansion of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Rural Community Hospital demonstration program.

A new report from the New England Journal of Medicine indicates that 14.1 million children, or 19.3 percent, were underinsured by their health insurance plans in 2007, and that those with private insurance were more likely to be underinsured (24.2 percent) than children with public health insurance (14.7 percent).

The merger of two Atlanta-based technology firms with extensive footprints in the payer industry is designed to provide health plans and insurers with access to more consumer health data.