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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced financial settlements this week with five healthcare facilities located in the New York City region to immediately end the practice of disposing of pharmaceutical waste into the watershed.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has posted corrections to the 2010 Physician Fee Schedule, which includes a change in the Medicare anesthesia conversion factor effective January 1, 2010.
A Missouri-based health center is looking to expand the patient-centered medical home concept to more than 30,000 uninsured and underinsured residents in the state through a deal with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems.
Employment in the U.S. healthcare sector increased by approximately 21,500 jobs in December, while the national unemployment rate remained unchanged at 10.0 percent, according to recent data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Premier healthcare alliance, which encompasses 2,300 not-for profit hospitals and health systems and more than 63,000 other healthcare organizations, addressed healthcare reform in a letter to Congressional leadership Jan. 12.
Premier healthcare alliance, which encompasses 2,300 not-for profit hospitals and health systems and more than 63,000 other healthcare organizations, addressed healthcare reform in a letter to Congressional leadership Jan. 12.
Caring Hands Health Clinics of McAlester, Okla., has initiated a new program to offer discount medications to patients in southeastern Oklahoma.
Columbia, S.C.-based Companion Life Insurance has purchased Indiana-based Summit Reinsurance Services, a re-insurer of HMOs and insurance companies and managing general underwriter of stop loss coverage for employer health plans.
Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital healthcare system serving the Dallas-Fort Worth area, has announced plans to build a new full-service hospital.
Healthcare organizations have sent a letter to House and Senate leaders urging equality in Medicaid and Medicare rates for primary care services.