Chip Means

A 78-year-old woman living in Michigan may pay $4,113 in annual out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs covered under that state's least expensive Medicare drug plan. A woman of the same age in Ohi...

Eastman Kodak Company has announced the sale of its healthcare group to Toronto-based Onex Healthcare Holdings Inc. in a deal initially valued at $2.35 billion. Pending returns on investments, the tot...

Healthcare spending for the year 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 Medicaid Services anno...

A recent commonwealth fund study of Medicare Advantage plans is "based on flawed methodology," America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) president Karen Ignagni said in a Nov. 30 press release....

Physicians may face a 10 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements in 2008, the Congressional Budget warns, thanks in part to Congress' December action to defer a scheduled 5 percent cut....

Healthcare organizations looking to hire clinical coding professionals have reported "real problems in filling open slots with qualified candidates," a survey by the American Health Information Manage...

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ plan to increase payments to physicians who spend more time talking with their Medicare patients may be viewed in a different l...