Language in the House healthcare reform bill that would strip an antitrust exemption for medical professional liability insurers could increase premiums, the American Academy of Actuaries said. In a letter to House Democratic and Republican leaders, the group said the bill...
The fact that a high-profile healthcare institution like Cleveland Clinic is aggressively expanding wellness benefits is another sign that wellness programs work.
Nine in 10 hospitals use social media to some degree, but most of them say they're having little luck attracting new patients with it, and only one in three has a formal social media plan in place, a new study shows. The research also showed that budgeting for social...
The staff at a Lorton, VA family physician practice thought they were dealing with a malfunctioning heating duct when they heard what sounded like a small explosion in a vacant examination room. The explosion was actually caused by a grapefruit-sized meteorite that...
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has asked 31 of the nation's largest hospitals and health systems to detail their problems implementing the $19 billion federal HIT program that was launched last year. Grassley said that his 11-question survey is a response to...
When we create the incentives for healthier living that are at the heart of wellness programs, we must also understand that not everybody will be able to take full advantage of those incentives.
St. David's South Austin (TX) Hospital will begin a $72 million renovation and expansion project in April that will add three floors, more than 100,000 square feet, and 25% more beds. Effective immediately, the hospital has been renamed St. David's South Austin Medical...
Johnson & Johnson and two of its subsidiaries have been named in a kickback scheme that allegedly paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to Omnicare Inc., the nation's largest pharmacy that specializes in dispensing drugs to nursing home patients, the Department of...
The demand for healthcare workers appears to be accelerating in most areas of the nation, a new study shows. Labor trends in 30 markets found demand growing fastest in Sacramento, Riverside/San Bernardino, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Dallas for the fourth quarter of 2009.
With a 21% Medicare reimbursement cut for physicians looming on March 1, the American Medical Association began airing TV ads that call on the Senate to permanently fix what has become an annual sideshow. The ads are airing in 10 states through the end of January.
