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The orthopedics and sports medicine group OrthoArkansas has deployed a practice management and billing service for its physician organization.OrthoArkansas, comprised of 21 orthopedic physici...
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services will provide $2 million in individual assistance for victims of Hurricane Ike from affected counties in Texas through a new Emergency Prescription As...
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania plans to invest $750,000 in state funds, to be matched by $870,000 in private funds, to benefit nursing education programs statewide.The $1.6 million Nurse Ed...
Staten Island University Hospital will pay the United States government more than $74 million to settle claims that the hospital defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and the military's health insurance progra...
Computer giant Hewlett-Packard, moving quickly to integrate newly acquired Electronic Data Systems (EDS) into its portfolio, has announced that it will cut 24,600 jobs, or 7.5 percent of its workfo...
A name change and the acquisition of a Texas-based software company have officials at Dairyland Healthcare Solutions thinking big while hoping to keep their rural roots.Officials at the 28-ye...
In a bid to address the nation's nursing shortage, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded the first round of $28 million in grants to 15 junior faculty nurses around the country.The R...
MedeFinance, Inc. of Emeryville, Calif. has announced that St. Vincent Health System, based in Little Rock, Ark. and part of Catholic Health Initiatives, will implement the company’s Reve...
Miami physicians Carlos Contreras, MD, and Ramon Pichardo, MD, pled guilty last week to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with a $6.8 million HIV infusion fraud scheme.Contreras,...
Kan-ed, a statewide information network administered by the Kansas Board of Regents, has named 94 organizations as recipients of equipment and technology grants. Kan-ed has so far awarded $2....