While Florida gained more than 27,000 RNs in the past two years, losses to the nurse workforce erased 60 percent of that gain, according to a report by the Jacksonville Business Journal.
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Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Ill., is building a $24 million Orthopedic & Neurosciences Center, scheduled to open in late 2011, according to a report by the Belleville News-Democrat.
Insurers should be prevented from tweaking the reported amounts they spend on medical care to comply with the new healthcare reform law, according to a letter from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) to Department of Health and Human Services' Secretary Kathleen…
Changes mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will require all Medicare fee-for-service claims to be submitted within 12 months (one calendar year) of the date of service in order to receive reimbursement, according to an MLN Matters…
Officials from Minnesota's hospital, nurse and physicians' associations are urging state lawmakers and Governor Tim Pawlenty to cover the state's low-income residents with the state-federal Medicaid plan rather than a revamped General Assistance Medical Care plan negotiated in April, according…
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With college graduations starting, the Obama administration will ask insurers to allow young adults to say on their parents' plans until age 26 rather than wait until this standard is required on Sept. 23, according to report by ABC News.
The healthcare industry saw the addition of 20,100 jobs in April 2010, according to a news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A 2.3 percent tax on medical device companies that was part of the new healthcare reform law has many companies in Massachusetts eyeing plans to reduce costs, including job cuts, according to a report in Mass High Tech: The Journal…
Warsaw, Ind.-based Symmetry Medical announced its results for the quarter ended April 3, 2010, which included a 10.6 percent gain on a sequential basis from the fourth quarter of 2009, according to a Symmetry news release.
Arizona has become the 19th state to reject a federal invitation to set up a high-risk pool to cover patients with pre-existing medical conditions under health reform, according to a report by the Arizona Republic.