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The Treasury Department has released details on how small businesses will benefit from the new health insurance reform law.

Universal Health Services, one of the nation's largest hospital companies, has reached an agreement to acquire behavioral health provider Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. in a deal worth approximately $3.1 billion.

Nine hospitals in Alabama, Indiana, Florida, Michigan, South Carolina, New York and Minnesota have agreed to pay more than $9.4 million to settle allegations that the healthcare facilities submitted false claims to Medicare.

CFOs in the healthcare industry are less optimistic about the state of the U.S economy and their own company's financial prospects than their counterparts in other industries, according to a new survey.

The United Health Foundation will provide a three-year, $3.3 million grant to Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans to help support and expand the new Daughters of Charity Health Center-St. Cecilia.

A Miami-area HIV infusion clinic owner and operator has been charged for her alleged participation in a $23 million HIV infusion Medicare fraud scheme.

The George Washington University Board of Trustees has announced plans to launch a new school of nursing.

Employment in the U.S. healthcare sector increased by approximately 20,100 jobs in April, although the national unemployment rate increased slightly to 9.9 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Gene L. Dodaro, acting Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, has announced the appointment of four new members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reduced to 12 months the deadline by which hospitals may submit Medicare fee-for-service claims, in line with a mandate in the new healthcare reform law.