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The State Children's Health Insurance Program, which has provided health insurance for some 6.6 million children since 1997, expires one month from today. Two renewal proposals in Congress have stakeh...
The number of Americans without health insurance has risen by more than two million since 2005 and among them are 700,000 more uninsured children, the U.S. Census Bureau has announced....
Medicare part D drug premiums to rise in ’08 Medicare Part D plan premiums will rise slightly in 2008 to an average of $25, up from about $22 in 2007, the Centers for M...
Senate passes med student loan relief bill Medical students would be allowed to defer student loan debt repayment plans longer if the Higher Education Access Act of 2007 is signed i...
CHARLOTTE, NC – The Premier Healthcare Alliance is looking for additional supporters as it plans to launch a project to test the viability of a program intended to increase patient safety and he...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week that it will begin recruiting for its post acute care payment reform demonstration to improve payments and incentives in the PAC settin...
WASHINGTON – Physicians’ Medicare pay would be massively affected if the House’s Children’s Health and Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act is signed into law, physician advoc...
When the landmark 1999 Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human revealed that tens of thousands of people die each year from medical errors, the news was not a surprise to the profession, said Elizabeth Summy, executive director of the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM).
BETHESDA, MD – Ambulatory surgery centers stand to receive less money from Medicare, according to a rule issued in late July by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Medic...
Navicure’s RCM solutions accredited by EHNAC Navicure, an Atlanta-based provider of Web-based revenue cycle management solutions, has received full accreditation from the Elec...