Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said his office has uncovered a potentially anticompetitive practice by health insurance companies that could raise healthcare costs and lower competition.
Hospital nurses spend three hours of a typical 12-hour shift away from the patients' bedside to complete regulatory requirements, redundant paperwork, and other non-direct care, a recent online survey of more than 1,600 nurses shows.
A new study found that patients admitted to full or near-full hospitals increased their risk of dying by 5.6%. University of Michigan Health System researchers also found that having more nurses made patients safer, but weekend admission and admission during seasonal...
Healthcare network VHA Inc. has signed a five-year strategic agreement with Omnicare Inc. subsidiary Tidewater GPO, a group purchasing organization for long-term care providers. The agreement gives Covington, KY-based Tidewater's approximately 4,000 members access to VHA's...
Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital, on the verge of financial collapse about two years ago, has reached financial stability and improved patient care, hospital officials said. Two years ago, the hospital owed medical supply companies $40 million, owed...
Malpractice payments in 2009 were the lowest in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1992, according to Public Citizen, a liberal watchdog group. Public Citizen said the data contradict claims that malpractice litigation is to blame for rising healthcare costs, and that...
The healthcare sector created 12,000 new jobs in February, even as overall employment from all business sectors saw 36,000 jobs lost, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics preliminary data released this morning.
Though five years into the Medicare Part D drug program, CMS' efforts to root out fraud and waste are still "limited in scope and may not sufficiently protect the program," a federal inspector told Congress on Wednesday.
At least a half-dozen House Democrats who voted against the healthcare bill say they are now undecided, and President Obama says he is willing to embrace several Republican ideas to collect more votes, the Wall Street Journal reports. Although it...
