Mar
16
E-mails touting false health claims are common, and it can be hard to debunk them to worried patients. One doctor decided the best way to fight a viral e-mail was by creating his own.
Mar
16
Finding an available fiscal source for the paybacks will likely be difficult for the state's university system now that it has lost its final appeal.
Mar
16
Pressed to measure up in public reports, physicians at one hospital may have been too quick to diagnose patients with pneumonia, researchers say.
Mar
16
Experts say this trend among doctors 50 and older could ease the impact of physician shortages.
Mar
16
Federal investigators are cracking down on Medicare supply schemes.
Mar
16
The industry has made improper payments to physicians in an attempt to influence their medical judgment, senators said.
Mar
16
The program continues this year with added quality measures. Government officials expect it to be extended through 2009 and are seeking to include new assessments.
Mar
16
A lawsuit and a punitive damage award against a California plan are two of the latest developments.
Mar
16
The commission also calls for equalizing private health plan payments with average spending on traditional fee-for-service patients.
Mar
9
Physicians had denounced a proposal to stop paying for these services, saying it was a barrier to needed care.