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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton has agreed to pay $6.35 million to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare.

Average healthcare costs for U.S. employers increased 7.3 percent in 2009, with small employers hit the hardest, according to Thomson Reuters.

Forty-eight upstate New York hospitals earned more than $22 million in quality improvement incentive payments from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield as part of the health insurer's Hospital Performance Incentive Program.

More than 20 million U.S. workers lack health insurance, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

MedAptus, based in Boston, has announced that physicians with Jordan Physician Associates of Plymouth, Mass., are using the MedAptus Inpatient Edition to capture and submit professional charges while on service at Jordan Hospital.

Family medicine residency training programs attracted 101 more U.S. medical school graduates to the specialty in 2010 than in 2009, according to the National Residency Match Program.

Beginning in 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will expand the number of ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes it will process and accept on institutional claims.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $372 million to 44 communities to support public health efforts.

Without Republican votes, the House voted late Sunday night to approve a healthcare reform package passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve.

The Community Oncology Alliance reports at least 30 community cancer clinics have closed during the past several months due to cuts in Medicare reimbursement for cancer care.