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By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | January 12, 2009
The University of Chicago Medical Center will undergo a major restructuring that will trim $100 million in expenses - equivalent to 7 percent of its annual budget - and include the elimination of top...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | January 09, 2009
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved the Missouri Department of Social Services' request to expand women's health services to uninsured women ages 18-55 with income up to 185 pe...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | January 09, 2009
Families USA, the national organization for healthcare consumers, released a report Friday that shows temporary healthcare premiums for the recently unemployed consume some 84 percent of their unemplo...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | January 09, 2009
The owner and operator of two Miami medical clinics has pled guilty to defrauding the Medicare program for $5.3 million.According to Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 09, 2009
It's possible to provide health insurance for uninsured Americans and also save healthcare costs, asserts a report released Friday by the Commonwealth Fund. Technology would have to play a ke...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | January 08, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced the final five contractors that will process and pay Medicare claims for healthcare services under the Medicare fee-for-service program....
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | January 08, 2009
In a major speech Thursday, likened to those given on the campaign trail, President-elect Barack Obama outlined his plans for an economic recovery package he hopes to begin moving through Congress as...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 08, 2009
Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle pledged Thursday that he would apply the lessons of the past to work toward healthcare reform. "When healthcare reform collapsed in 1994, I rememb...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | January 08, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has notified more than 3,000 of the nation's hospitals that they will receive the full payment update for calendar year 2009 as part of the new Hospita...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | January 07, 2009
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Nevada has introduced SmartSense, a choice-driven health insurance plan targeted to "early" retirees, the self-employed, independent contractors, student...