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The owner and operator of two Miami medical clinics has pled guilty to defrauding the Medicare program for $5.3 million.According to Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved the Missouri Department of Social Services' request to expand women's health services to uninsured women ages 18-55 with income up to 185 pe...
It's possible to provide health insurance for uninsured Americans and also save healthcare costs, asserts a report released Friday by the Commonwealth Fund. Technology would have to play a ke...
Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle pledged Thursday that he would apply the lessons of the past to work toward healthcare reform. "When healthcare reform collapsed in 1994, I rememb...
In a major speech Thursday, likened to those given on the campaign trail, President-elect Barack Obama outlined his plans for an economic recovery package he hopes to begin moving through Congress as...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced the final five contractors that will process and pay Medicare claims for healthcare services under the Medicare fee-for-service program....
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has notified more than 3,000 of the nation's hospitals that they will receive the full payment update for calendar year 2009 as part of the new Hospita...
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Nevada has introduced SmartSense, a choice-driven health insurance plan targeted to "early" retirees, the self-employed, independent contractors, student...
The federal government is inching closer to value-based healthcare, a proposition that has been heavily endorsed by the Bush Administration and promoted by the incoming Obama Administration.T...
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has called on Congress to invest $30 billion on broadband, the smart electronic grid and healthcare information technology as a way to create as ma...