Doctors are very much like that greased pig. They find it very hard to control and manage such a wily creature.

Doctors Hospital generally had the highest charges among Augusta hospitals for common procedures, including the highest charge for a procedure in Georgia, while Georgia Regents Medical Center received the highest Medicare payments as a result of extra funds for teaching and treating more low-income people, according to data released Wednesday by the federal government.

Health Resources and Services Administration NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT (Belle Terrace Health and Wellness Centers) In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Council on Environmental Quality regulations for implementing NEPA (44 CFR Parts 1500

The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit.

COLUMBIA - A South Carolina lawmaker is challenging Gov. Nikki Haley and the state's Department of Social Services director to try to eat healthy foods on a food stamp budget for one week.

The idea involves training trusted community representatives, such as church leaders, to help Medicaid patients navigate the health care system. Their tasks would range from setting up doctors' appointments to making sure prescriptions are filled and medications taken properly.

ROME, Ga. - Federal agents and police raided a children's dentistry practice in a northwest Georgia town, saying they were responding to complaints that patients were improperly restrained.

Federal agents and police raided a children's dentistry practice in a northwest Georgia town Thursday, saying they were responding to complaints that patients were improperly restrained.

The last-minute "fiscal cliff" deal did not address other potentially big problems such as Medicare payments to physicians.

It has to start with an honest, dispassionate examination of what really ails us.