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A former chief financial officer for three different hospital networks is under house arrest and facing federal fraud charges for allegedly stealing more than $200,000 from health systems in Connecticut and Ohio.
The percentage of the nation's population without health insurance increased from 15.4 percent in 2008 to 16.7 percent in 2009, according to data released in September by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Health insurance carriers have been on the minds of lawmakers, consumers and federal officials over the past month.
Marin General Hospital, a 235-bed acute care hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., has filed suit against Sutter Health to recover more than $120 million.
Five rural hospitals in western North Carolina that formed a collaborative designed to eliminate waste have found success.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's plan to re-open a financially troubled hospital that has been closed for almost five years is a bid to help a town in need of better healthcare services and an economic shot in the arm.
In recent news reports, medical billing companies were named in connection with a medical records data breach, one of which apparently involved medical records found in a public dump.
Our staff at McLeod Health is composed of more than 4,700 employees spread throughout our medical center, health agency, fitness facility and 35 medical practices. That many employees alone can make HR challenging, but spread them over multiple facilities and toss in the varying degrees of jobs that need to be filled and some days it can make healthcare HR seem like an insurmountable task.
David Barham, vice president of finance for operations for Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis, Tenn., is this month's Newsmaker.
As children around the United States returned to school this autumn, many districts were looking to cut costs by curbing or eliminating school nursing programs.