Executives with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners say they’re pleased that the healthcare reform package President Obama is expected to sign into law today retains states’ oversight for their own insurance markets.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton will pay $6.35 million to settle two whistleblower lawsuits alleging that the New Jersey hospital inflated outlier billings to Medicare, the Department of Justice announced.
Detroit Medical Center, Michigan's largest charity care provider, signed a letter of intent to negotiate the eight-hospital system’s sale to private Vanguard Health Systems, Inc. The purchase price will include approximately $417 million to retire all outstanding DMC...
The 2010 National Resident Matching Program shows that the number of U.S. medical students choosing internal medicine residencies grew slightly from 2009, but not enough to impact the shortage of primary care physicians.
Health insurance plans that push patients toward physicians who keep medical costs lower are based on unreliable estimates of physician performance and may not save money, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine. The RAND Corp. study found...
Older women aged 55 and older will become 30% of the nation’s direct-care workforce by 2018—up from 22% in 2008, according to a new study by PHI, the long-term care workforce development consultants.
Declining admissions has prompted HCA’s Spring Branch Medical Center in Houston to cease inpatient operations by May 1. However, outpatient services, including radiation oncology, imaging, and emergency care will continue, the hospital chain announced.
Physicians are key drivers of hospital revenues, and a single physician averages more than $1.5 million a year in net revenue for his or her affiliated hospital, a new national survey of hospital CFOs reported. Neurosurgeons topped the list. A single, full-time...
Alpharma Inc. will pay $42.5 million to resolve whistleblower kickback and False Claims Act allegations for its marketing of the painkiller Kadian, the Justice Department said.
