A memo distributed last week shows the government may be getting serious about pursuing executives who entangle their companies in fraudulent conduct. Legal experts say healthcare leaders should take note.
The first full year of health coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act significantly drove down the uninsured rate in 2014, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Wednesday.
Foreign policy was more prominent than healthcare during Wednesday night's nearly three-hour debate. Still, Planned Parenthood got airtime. The debaters all agreed the women's health group should not receive any government funds.
A list of all 50 states ranked by total acute-care discharges per 1,000 people, based on fiscal 2014 data. Source: American Hospital Directory; U.S. Census Bureau. Published Sept. 14, 2015, p. 34.
Immigration activists and several legal experts say a women's health clinic committed a breach of trust when it called the police after an undocumented patient presented false identification at a doctor's appointment earlier this month.
Roughly 17.7 million seniors and disabled Americans are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, and many more are expected to sign up for the private Medicare health plans when the annual enrollment period begins next month.
Anti-addiction activists are calling on a Senate committee to release findings from a 3-year-old investigation into links between painkiller manufacturers and not-for-profit medical groups.
Voce Capital Management, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, has asked air ambulance company Air Methods Corp. to consider selling itself to a private-equity firm and escaping the publicly traded atmosphere.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday called for a delay and a phased-in implementation of Stage 3 of the electronic health-records program.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new recommendations Tuesday to help nursing homes combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The CDC says up to 75% of antibiotics prescribed in nursing homes are given incorrectly.
On Sept. 1, Karen Ignagni started a new chapter in her career far from Washington, D.C., where she spent two decades as the head of the insurance industry's lobbying group, AHIP. Now she is the caretaker of EmblemHealth, which insures 3.2 million people.
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