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Reducing the number of preventable patient injuries in California hospitals from 2001 to 2005 was associated with a corresponding drop in malpractice claims against physicians, according to a new study by the RAND Corporation.

U.S. Renal Care, a privately held provider of outpatient dialysis services, plans to acquire the Dialysis Corporation of America, a provider of outpatient kidney dialysis centers.

As much as 10 percent of America's annual $2 trillion healthcare bill is tied to fraud, waste or abuse. A new partnership by two leading healthcare IT vendors aims to tackle that problem.

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit obtained a record 148 criminal convictions in the state and recovered more than $283 million in 2009.

Hospital quality "needs significant improvement" and "waste remains rampant," according to the latest Leapfrog hospital survey, released Tuesday.

U.S. HealthWorks, a Valencia, Calif.-based operator of occupational healthcare and urgent care centers, has acquired the Medero Medical Caring for Workers Center in Ocala, Fla., its 12th location in that state.

Approximately three in four respondents to a survey of healthcare organizations said the recession has negatively impacted their balance sheets more than the 2001 recession.

Small, rural hospitals looking to tap into federal funds to improve security compliance have a new tool at their disposal.

The Health Workforce Solutions LLC Labor Market Pulse Index, a quarterly barometer of local market healthcare workforce fluctuations, shows a slowdown in demand for healthcare workers across a number of regions.

New fiscal barriers created by state and local governments are reducing the ability of nonprofit hospitals to provide needed services, according to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.