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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services will provide $2 million in individual assistance for victims of Hurricane Ike from affected counties in Texas through a new Emergency Prescription As...
Staten Island University Hospital will pay the United States government more than $74 million to settle claims that the hospital defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and the military's health insurance progra...
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania plans to invest $750,000 in state funds, to be matched by $870,000 in private funds, to benefit nursing education programs statewide.The $1.6 million Nurse Ed...
A name change and the acquisition of a Texas-based software company have officials at Dairyland Healthcare Solutions thinking big while hoping to keep their rural roots.Officials at the 28-ye...
MedeFinance, Inc. of Emeryville, Calif. has announced that St. Vincent Health System, based in Little Rock, Ark. and part of Catholic Health Initiatives, will implement the company’s Reve...
Kan-ed, a statewide information network administered by the Kansas Board of Regents, has named 94 organizations as recipients of equipment and technology grants. Kan-ed has so far awarded $2....
Miami physicians Carlos Contreras, MD, and Ramon Pichardo, MD, pled guilty last week to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with a $6.8 million HIV infusion fraud scheme.Contreras,...
A study released Monday by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows when it comes to advertising, insurers favor Medicare Advantage over stand-alone drug plans.According to the study, insurers placed...
The respiratory disposables and reusable respiratory accessories market is undergoing a dramatic change caused in part by a recent government regulation that bans the use of chlorofluorocarbon in inha...
In a bid to address the nation's nursing shortage, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded the first round of $28 million in grants to 15 junior faculty nurses around the country.The R...