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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded Boston Children's Hospital approximately $275,000 to address the coordination of open information about market-ready electronic health records app solutions.

Saint Michael's Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey will pay almost half a million dollars to resolve allegations they falsely billed Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary cardiac procedures over the course of six years, the U.S. Attorney's office announced.

National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, announced late Tuesday afternoon that the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT would post information for making certified electronic health record software less confusing.

Kindred Healthcare has completed the sale of two of its transitional care hospitals, licensed as long-term acute care hospitals, to Select Medical Holdings Corp., while also selling fours hospital to Select, the companies announced on Wednesday.

The union for healthcare workers at Parkview Community Hospital in Riverside, California, claims the hospital violated the terms of a $29 million U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development loan by spending what could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars on union busting.

WellCare Health Plans has completed its acquisition of Advicare Corp.'s Medicaid business, which includes the transfer of approximately 30,000 members to WellCare of South Carolina.

With research increasingly highlighting the link between sleep and good health, children's hospitals are rethinking just how they work at night.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is leaving California's insurance exchange at the end of this year, state officials confirmed Tuesday.

The use of advanced analytics by payers can improve administrative and medical costs, provider satisfaction and member health.

A recent study published in JAMA suggests the gap in quality between critical access hospitals and non-critical access hospitals may not be as wide as originally thought.