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New research released by The Maine Heritage Policy Center has found significant variations in costs for certain procedures among Maine hospitals sometimes representing thousands of dollars, or in a handful of cases, five times the amount.

Seventy-three nonprofit hospitals and medical organizations nationwide will share in a $3.2 million grant by Southwest Airlines that funds roundtrip air travel for specialized medical care to families who need it.

Rule affects 3,330 acute care hospitals, 430 long-term care hospitals.

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine campaign says hospitals have a responsibility to teach about healthy eating.

Todd Ostendorf previously held CFO roles with North Memorial Health Care and UnitedHealth Group's Complex Population Management.

The number of potentially deadly infections from contaminated medical scopes is far higher than what federal officials previously estimated, a new congressional investigation shows.

The healthcare industry accounted for the highest number of data breaches among service industries in 2015, according to a new 2016 Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec that also found ransomware on the rise and increasingly sophisticated attack tactics being perpetrated by organized criminals with extensive resources.

Staff learned in a company-wide letter that they would not be paid until this Friday.

He spoke to our sister site Healthcare IT News about the program, the people who make Geisinger work, the evolution of population health and the promise of what he calls "anticipatory medicine."

Unfortunately, thousands of people in need of mental health treatment are often being dropped at the emergency departments of their local hospitals, where under federal law doctors must evaluate these patients despite the limitations on ER-based mental health treatment.