The call by Florida's private health insurance plans to expand Medicaid managed care while eliminating fee-for-service programs and the state's MediPass program is meeting resistance from healthcare providers. Bruce J. Rueben, president of the Florida Hospital Association...
More than half of neurosurgeons in a national survey say they will cut services and time spent with Medicare patients if Congress doesn't act to permanently fix the sustainable growth rate formula, and prevent the 21.5% reimbursement cuts that are scheduled to go into...
State and national nurses associations are applauding a jury's quick verdict to acquit a Texas nurse of felony charges for reporting a physician to a state oversight board for allegedly providing unsafe patient care. "If anything was to be gained from the absurdity of this...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina's robo calls that urged members to oppose healthcare reform will cost the insurer $95,000 in fines, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has announced.
Healthcare IT systems provider Quality Systems Inc., of Irvine, CA, announced it will acquire inpatient services software developer Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. Financial terms were not disclosed in a media release announcing the deal.
CVS/pharmacy has reportedly agreed to pay Indiana $1.95 million to settle complaints that two pharmacists with long-expired licenses had dispensed more than 60,000 prescriptions at two stores, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced.
The former CFO of Tustin Hospital and Medical Center in Los Angeles has pleaded guilty to paying illegal kickbacks for patients recruited from the city's "Skid Row" area, the U.S. Attorneys Office in Los Angeles has announced.
The theft of 57 hard drives from a BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee training facility last fall has put at risk the private information of approximately 521,761 customers in at least 32 states, the insurer said this week in an investigative update. Of those customers...
Hospital patients, their families, and visitors may be stealing about $52 million in property each year from hospital rooms, including towels, linens, TV remotes, surgical scrubs, and even telephones, according to figures extrapolated from a recent survey.
