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By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | June 13, 2008
A series of blows and counter-blows in the Senate killed all chances this week of a Medicare payment fix getting off the ground. With less than three weeks left to block the mandated payment...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 12, 2008
Information technology and the ability to share health information are key to transforming the broken - and costly - U.S. healthcare system to one that keeps costs down by putting the patient and well...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | June 12, 2008
As part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force that has been operating in Miami since March 2007, three Miami-area brothers who allegedly financed 11 "corrupt" HIV infusion clinics and a physici...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | June 12, 2008
Billing records for approximately 2.2 million patients and guarantors were reported stolen this week from the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics.Officials said they are now assessing...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | June 11, 2008
The latest issue of Consumer Reports looks at how some patients, after being encouraged and sometimes pressured to use their credit cards to pay for medical expenses, are now facing debt....
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | June 11, 2008
University Medical Center has received a  $7.175 million grant from UnitedHealth Group and Sierra Health Service to improve healthcare services to southern Nevadans. The five-year grant...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | June 11, 2008
Microsoft officials have announced 15 recipients of funding from the company's HealthVault Be Well fund.Announced Tuesday during the Second Annual Microsoft HealthVault Solutions Conference i...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 11, 2008
In advance of a daylong summit on health reform next week, a Senate committee discussed problems surrounding the health insurance market and how it might be solved.The Senate Finance Committe...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 11, 2008
A medical investment company has purchased a specialty hospital and two ambulatory surgery centers in Kansas.The Montecito Medical Investment Co. bought the facilities with Harrison Street Re...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | June 10, 2008
Among the many efforts to delay the first round of the durable medical equipment competitive bidding program, a letter urging the delay has been circulated in the Senate by Sens. George Voinovich (R-O...