Georgia news and information

The American Health Quality Association, which represents quality improvement organizations across the nation, has named Dr. Adrienne Mims its new president, effective July 17.
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Orion HealthCorp, an information technology-based medical billing and practice management vendor, has installed a new leadership team.
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The number of organ donors jumped dramatically last year when Donate Life America—an organization that seeks to promote organ donation—partnered with Facebook to draw attention to the national organ shortage, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University researchers published in the...
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One patient with a history of substance abuse and suicidal thoughts was left alone in a waiting room inside the Atlanta VA Medical Center, where he obtained drugs from a hospital visitor and later died of an overdose. Another patient wandered the 26-acre campus for hours, picking up his...
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As many state legislative sessions have finished or are nearing completion, advocates of expanding Medicaid eligibility are looking at their next steps.
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Georgia's Phoebe Putney Health System, which has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court and back in its quest to buy a rival hospital for $200 million, lost a key legal battle last week when a federal judge imposed what he called an “extraordinary and drastic” restraining order on the...
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Phoebe Putney Health System, which has gone to the Supreme Court and back in its quest to buy a rival hospital, lost a key legal battle when a judge imposed a restraining order on the union.
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As Congress drafted elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that would tie Medicare payments to quality metrics, the House of Representatives added a provision that would shield physicians from lawsuits tied to their failure to meet those marks.
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A provision in the U.S. House of Representatives' version of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that was left out of the Senate version has been resurrected and signed into law in the state of Georgia.
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Help for consumers who want to purchase health insurance plans through the new exchanges will be coming to Georgia this year in the form of paid “navigators” earning from $20 to $38 an hour.
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