A recent Reuters analysis shows American patients aren’t seeking medical care at the rate they once did due to the economy, which has had an impact on a number of publicly traded healthcare firms, according to a Reuters report.
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The demolition of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Braddock (Pa.), which began last month, has been halted and challenged with a lawsuit that made its way to U.S. District Court this week, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.
Simi Valley (Calif.) Hospital has agreed to pay the U.S. government $5.15 million in order to settle allegations that the hospital filed fraudulent claims to Medicare, according to a Pacific Coast Business Times news report.
Barbara Haynes, a circuit court judge who ruled in favor of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in a malpractice lawsuit, is now under fire for not disclosing that she sits on the board of that hospital, according to…
American Medical Association CEO Michael Maves, MD, who has been facing angry physicians following the organization's support of the healthcare reform bill, will step down as CEO of the AMA when his contract ends this coming June, according to a…
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Georgia voters shot down a proposed $10 annual fee that would have created $80 million to fund the state's 16 trauma centers as well as encouraged more hospitals to offer trauma care, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
A recent report by Miami-Dade County Inspector General Christopher Mazzella identified "wasteful" spending by Jackson Health System in regards to its international program.
Following the Republicans' significant victory in Tuesday's election, President Obama said he was willing to consider "tweaks" of the healthcare reform law but he would not engage in a broad debate on it, according to a report by the New…
Voters in Oklahoma and Arizona on Nov. 2 decisively approved ballot initiatives to reject the mandate to buy health insurance in the healthcare reform law, but Colorado voters rejected it, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is defending a demand that contracted hospitals to give it their lowest contracted rates, after a new lawsuit by the Justice Department challenged this practice, known as "most favored nation," according to a report…