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By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | November 20, 2007
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issuing a final rule calling for a 10.1 percent reduction in payment rates. The new rule was met with disdain from physic...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | November 20, 2007
CHICAGO – A coalition of providers, suppliers, group purchasing organizations and others has endorsed standards for organizational and product identifiers intended to facilitate supply ord...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | November 20, 2007
RALEIGH, NC – The Center for Community Health Leadership, sponsored by Misys Healthcare Systems, has named Tampa Bay, Fla. as the recipient of  $3 million worth of electronic health rec...
By John Andrews | 12:00 am | November 20, 2007
Benchmarking experts say the practice of using performance yardsticks has been around the healthcare industry for at least 20 years – long enough for it to gain traction, assimilate into the...
By John Andrews | 12:00 am | November 20, 2007
CLEVELAND, OH – Home medical equipment providers have long feared that a competitive bidding plan for Medicare Part B supplies will destroy the infrastructure of the homecare support system....
By Jack Beaudoin | 12:00 am | November 20, 2007
NEW GLOUCESTER, MAINE - Healthcare Finance News, the business newspaper for healthcare financial managers, has added a new editor to its award-winning team of journalists. E...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 20, 2007
PHILADELPHIA — Operating costs rose faster than revenue in many medical group practices in 2006, according to two surveys released at the 2007 Annual Conference of the Medical Group Manageme...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | November 20, 2007
Retail clinic revenue to hit $4.5 billion by 2011 Retail medical clinics could realize revenues of nearly $4.5 billion by 2011, according to a new report by market research firm Kalorama...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | November 20, 2007
WASHINGTON – Laws that require employers to provide health insurance to employees are likely to reduce employment for low-wage workers, according to a study. Small busine...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | November 20, 2007
WASHINGTON – After a decade of legislative attempts to bring true parity to mental health, Congress is poised to pass a bill that has teeth, when compared to its 1996 predecessor....