Community Benefit

With an estimated 50 percent of survey respondents either skipping dental work because of the cost or not going to the dentist at all, a California- and Canada-based healthcare firm is looking to make that trip to the dentist a little easier.

Physicians looking to go it alone in this economy need all the help they can get. Wells Fargo is looking to provide that assistance.

An upstart California healthcare union is in danger of folding following a decisive defeat to a bitter rival in a recent vote of Kaiser Permanente employees.

The growing number of self-pay patients is prompting one of the nation's largest healthcare coalitions to expand its revenue cycle management tools.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has awarded $727 million to 143 community health centers nationwide.

Cigna and the Piedmont Physicians Group, part of Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare, have launched an accountable care organization pilot program, designed to provide a comprehensive, accountable and collaborative approach to medical care.

The Department of Health and Human Services has expanded the Rural Community Hospital demonstration program.

President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, after months of bitter debate nationwide and on Capitol Hill.

A report on healthcare spending released in September by actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been used to support both sides of the bitter partisan debate over healthcare reform.

As children around the United States returned to school this autumn, many districts were looking to cut costs by curbing or eliminating school nursing programs.