Bruce Japsen

Jumping in front of what may soon become a government mandate to prevent medical errors, the Chicago area's two giant drugmakers say they are making progress in affixing supermarket-style bar...

Unable to finalize the sale of Warren Barr Pavilion to a Skokie-based operator of long-term-care facilities, Advocate Health Care has a new buyer lined up for the 271-bed long-term-care and...

The federal government will soon provide a way for consumers to compare quality of nursing homes as part of a much-anticipated effort to provide information on performance of care providers....

Under pressure from member physicians, the board of the American Medical Association will continue funding its union through the end of 2003, the Chicago-based doctors group confirmed. The decision comes...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans, which have settled several Medicare fraud cases in the last decade, are lobbying Congress for legislation that may curb future penalties and prosecutions,...

In one of the first major federal legislative initiatives to curb pharmaceutical industry marketing practices, a bill introduced in Congress would eliminate tax breaks for drugmakers' direct-to-consumer advertisements. The legislation...

The state's largest malpractice carrier has increased doctors' premiums 15 percent on average, the company said of annual rates effective this month. Although 2002 rates jumped from last year's 11...

From his start as one of Gov. Richard Ogilvie's "whiz kids" to his membership on the Metra board and lucrative posts with the Illinois State Medical Society, Donald Udstuen has...

The on-again, off-again bidding war for Grant Hospital is back on again. Financially troubled Grant has reopened the sales process to a second bidder after a proposed buyer recently lowered...