Government Health Care

Hospitals and other health care providers in Maryland are receiving a total of $2 million in federal money to reimburse them for investments they made in new electronic record systems, state officials said Thursday. The grants were the first in a...

State businesses should be prepared for major changes in health benefit policies regardless of the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging federal health care reform, a Maryland Chamber of Commerce official warned Wednesday. “Even if parts...

West Virginia would slash property taxes in exchange for a new “cracker” plant and reserve funds to improve roads, schools and high-speed Internet access, under proposals Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin offered the Legislature in his State of the...

A 56-year-old Gambrills podiatrist was sentenced to more than four years in prison Wednesday for fraudulently billing Medicare $1.1 million over three years, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office. The scheme marked the second time Larry...

Charles Orestus Smith, a retired CareFirst Medicare contractor who was an avid fan of the opera and symphony, died Jan. 3 of a heart attack at his home in the Northway Apartments in Guilford. He was 74. Born in Baltimore and raised in Guilford, Mr. Smith...

Legislators learned Monday that the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources is once again getting all of the tax revenue that it should from the state Department of Revenue. That was the good news.  But the lawmakers also heard that a new...

Upper Chesapeake Health recently announced it has agreed to participate in the Hospital Engagement Network led by VHA Inc., the national health care network. As part of its Partnership for Patients initiative, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid and the...

The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers about a new scam aimed at Medicare recipients. Customers are being contacted by phone. The caller states that they want to send the consumer a "new medicare card." They then go over the customer's personal...

Local leaders are responsible for area’s decay To the editor: Nice column by Tim Rowland in Sunday’s paper. Why all this discussion about a Suns stadium? If it’s going to be a Suns stadium, let the Suns build it. What this area...

Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposed budget was assailed on many fronts Wednesday as county executives, education advocates, Maryland hospitals and Republican leaders began making their case against the $36 billion spending plan. Some said cuts in payments to...

 Most states, including Maryland, are not doing enough to protect the public from tobacco or prevent related disease, according to the latest assessment from the American Lung Associationdue out today. In its 10th annual State of Tobacco Control Report...

A Harrisburg based ambulance company, its owner and a managerial employee are indiced by a Federal Grand Jury in Harrisburg on health care fraud charges. Advantage Medical Transport, Inc, in the 700 block of Fire House Lane, and owner, 26 year old Serbe...