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Molly Merrill

By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | November 06, 2007
Baby boomers rarely think about long-term care and most of them incorrectly assume their existing or future insurance will cover their expenses, a recent survey has found....
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | November 06, 2007
PORTLAND, ME – The construction of new hospitals and massive expansions of others across the country show how unprepared the nation is for the effect of Baby Boomers on the $2.3 trillion healthc...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 31, 2007
Speakers lined up for the first Leadership Forum on Medical Tourism say the industry could prompt a movement to transparency in healthcare pricing. Key topics that the forum wi...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 26, 2007
A bill introduced in Congress earlier this week aims to provide transparency in medical device pricing for hospitals to help them negotiate on prices and reduce Medicare spending....
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 25, 2007
Rising costs are forcing Americans to change the way they use the healthcare system, according to the results a survey released this week. However, the jury’s out for consum...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 18, 2007
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Robert Casey (D-Pa.) yesterday introduced legislation to prevent the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service from making further cuts to home healthcare providers' re...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 17, 2007
People find paying a standard monthly fee and an upfront co-pay for visits attractive because they feel that they are losing less money and are motivated to keep visit for reimbursement, a new study o...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | September 26, 2007
A new report by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and GE Healthcare Financial Services identifies strategies to help hospitals maximize technology investments in order to prevent...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | September 18, 2007
A non-clinical organization providing accreditation to medical tourism firms has been granted nonprofit status, making it the first of its kind in the growing $20 billion medical tourism industry....
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | September 14, 2007
A $1,500,000 grant has been awarded to the National League for Nursing and three institutions of higher education to fund a five-year Health Information Technologies Scholars (HITS) Project to integra...