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Former chief financial officer of HealthSouth, Aaron Beam, was flying high until he became involved in an accounting fraud that would send him to jail and offer him a mission: warning others of the ethical dangers of wealth and success.
Career Quest Learning Centers, in Lansing, Mich., has introduced a new Health Information Technology program to meet employer demands for new workers to handle federally mandated electronic health records. Classes begin Feb. 1 at Michigan campuses in Lansing, Jackson and Kalamazoo.
The U.S. government has filed suit seeking $150 million in damages and penalties under the False Claims Act against Universal Imaging, Inc. and its current and former owners, Phillip J. Young and Mark Lauhoff, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced late last week.
Universal American Corp. announced Wednesday that it will acquire APS Healthcare, which provides population health solutions for Medicaid programs and other health plans, for $227.5 million.
Med Data Inc., a provider of medical billing services has acquired revenue cycle management and personalized patient communications company MedDirect, Inc.
Quality professionals working in the healthcare industry made an average of $85,473 in 2011 reports the American Society for Quality in its annual salary survey, but it's the job trends that it hints at that offer a glimpse of the future.
HealthyWage, a company offering Americans a chance to place bets on their ability to lose weight using any diet and fitness program they choose, announced Tuesday that it paid out over $450,000 in 2011.
"In 2012, meaningful use will soar," National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari asserted at the Jan. 10 meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee.
The Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record program has paid more than $2.5 billion to physicians and hospitals in incentive payments for all of 2011, with December contributing to the steep growth curve.
Health Net, Inc. subsidiary Health Net Life Insurance Co. announced it has agreed to sell its Medicare stand-alone prescription drug plan (PDP) business to a subsidiary of CVS Caremark for $160 million.