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WASHINGTON – After a couple of false starts, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services was expected to begin disseminating national provider identifier numbers this month on its Web site....

HHS awarding $25 million in emergency care grants Hospitals are eligible to apply for shares of $25 million in grants the Department of Health and Human Services will award for im...

RALEIGH, NC – One company’s effort to streamline its product offerings has helped another flesh out its portfolio. Misys Healthcare concluded a troubled year on July...

WASHINGTON – The nation’s hospitals will get an extra year to adapt to Medicare’s new severity-adjusted payment system, according to a final rule released last month by the Centers f...

WILMINGTON, OH – Even as a health system makes a big financial commitment to move to an electronic health records system, it still has to find a way to provide the “look and feel” of...

CHICAGO – An Internal Revenue Service ruling in May that encouraged not-for-profit hospitals to provide healthcare information technology to medical staff physicians is paying off for Allscripts...

ATLANTA – The variability of payer decisions on coverage is no joke for providers. They often base treatment decisions on precertification efforts, then find that payers deny s...

Contributed by Rick IngrahamThe healthcare industry has reached a watershed moment in which payers and providers are truly beginning to invest in the development of information technology in...

Author: SCHIP troubled by high dropout rates There’s a high dropout rate from State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) and Medicaid programs, said Benjamin Som...

San Diego-based Premier, Inc. has signed contracts with six healthcare providers who will use the company's SpendAdvisor technology to reduce supply-chain expenses. They are Adventist...