http://www.modernhealthcare.com Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare en-us 144 21 http://www.modernhealthcare.com http://www.modernhealthcare.com/graphics/icons/rss.gif Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:59:00 EST National Health Investors closed a $28.3 million deal to buy five Michigan and Illinois senior-living facilities from Bickford Senior Living, which has leased the facilities for 15 years. The deal, known as a sale-leaseback, includes $3 million in... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:59:00 EST HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has appointed four regional directors to serve the agency as representatives working with federal, state, local and tribal issues on a variety of health and social service issues. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST Although average flu activity in the U.S. has declined slightly in the past week, the level of flu activity remains higher than normal for this time of year, said a top official for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center's board of governors voted to adopt new policies on lobbying, political donations, conflicts-of-interest and executive compensation. Under the new policies, board members that do business with the 679-bed... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST For the second time this week, a group of medical experts is recommending a reduction in the frequency of health screenings for women. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued new cervical-cancer screening guidelines advising... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST The Joint Commission will replace its existing Oryx measure set for pregnancy and related conditions with a new set of perinatal-care core measures next year. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST House Republicans plan to offer an alternative to the Democrat-sponsored bill to reform Medicare's physician payment formula, claiming their approach solves the problem in a "fiscally responsible way." Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST A federal judge has declined to prevent HCA from implementing a flu-vaccine policy in five hospitals in Northern California despite anecdotal evidence presented by a workers' union that the policy was exposing workers to negative public attention. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:45:00 EST The U.S. Justice Department tallied $1.6 billion in False Claims Act settlements and judgments involving healthcare in fiscal 2009, accounting for two-thirds of the government's total haul of $2.4 billion last year under the fraud-fighting statute. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST The former chairman of McKesson Corp. and former CEO of HBO & Co., Charles McCall, has been convicted of securities fraud after a retrial of a $9 billion accounting scandal case dating back a decade.