Chip Means
Triad Hospitals Inc. has entered into a buyout deal with an estimated value of $6.4 billion. The acquisition involves affiliates of two private equity firms, the company announc...
Expenditures on healthcare in the United States, which currently outpace the economy and workers' earnings, will continue to rise rapidly over the next decade unless there are major healthcare policy...
Next May, providers will begin using the new NPI, a 10-digit number to be used in all healthcare billing procedures mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. NPIs are int...
Twenty-seven states will look for new ways to improve the efficiency, economy and quality of their Medicaid programs as Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has awarded the first $103 m...
SAN FRANCISCO – Three hospitals are expected to soon implement a new approach to delivering primary care, testing a concept projected to provide cost-effective options for insurers and reduced h...
Efforts to provide health coverage for uninsured children eligible for Medicaid are being complicated by a proof of citizenship provision in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, according to an annual s...
ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman Kodak Company has announced the sale of its healthcare group to Toronto-baseda Onex Healthcare Holdings Inc. in a deal initially valued at $2.35 billion. Pendin...
WASHINGTON – Healthcare spending in 2005 slowed for the third consecutive year and is growing at a rate that’s comparable with the rest of the economy, the Centers for Medicare and Medicai...
Emily Bowen, Contributing Writer PLANTATION, FL – With hospitals receiving set payments for providing care, getting patients into the most appropriate care as soon as possible i...
Tax credits for Americans buying their own insurance, leveraged federal funding to states with programs to cover the uninsured and a plea to save Medicare and Medicaid were the driving points of an am...