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By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:49 am | April 24, 2012
The forecast for the Medicare program remains the same as last year, with the program expected to remain solvent until 2024. But the program's solvency depends on several financial and political assumptions that are unpredictable.
By Kelsey Brimmer | 04:33 pm | April 23, 2012
Recently, Capital District Physicians' Health Plan (CDPHP) out of Albany, N.Y., and WellTok, Inc. announced the roll out of CafeWell, a social health management network that's focused on improving the health of individuals and populations, to all of CDPHP's 350,000 members throughout New York.
By Mike Miliard | 02:03 pm | April 23, 2012
Thomson Reuters will sell its healthcare business to an affiliate of Veritas Capital for $1.25 billion in cash, the company announced Monday.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 12:09 pm | April 23, 2012
A new report indicates that the Affordable Care Act will save Medicare more than $200 billion through 2016, announced the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Monday.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:21 am | April 23, 2012
As they prepare to convert to ICD-10, nearly half of providers nationwide are planning to purchase an inpatient computer-assisted coding (CAC) solution within the next two years, according to a new report from KLAS.
By Tom Sullivan | 10:23 am | April 23, 2012
ICD-10 and electronic health records are most frequently considered separate projects, undertaken by separate teams -- but perhaps they ought not be. Heather Haugen, vice president of research at the Breakaway Group explains.
By Kelsey Brimmer | 02:34 pm | April 20, 2012
According to a new Commonwealth Fund study, one in four working-age U.S. adults experienced a gap in health insurance coverage during 2011, in many cases because they lost or changed jobs.
By Eric Wicklund | 12:52 pm | April 20, 2012
Midmark, a developer of digital diagnostic devices for ambulatory care, is touting its new at-home sleep testing device as an important tool in the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. Officials say it can also reduce costs by as much as 70 percent.
By Frank Irving | 10:41 am | April 20, 2012
The American College of Physicians (ACP) and Consumer Reports announced a patient education collaboration on April 19 at Internal Medicine 2012 in New Orleans.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:28 am | April 20, 2012
HHS settles with an Arizona physicians' practice for $100,000 over their failure to adequately protect patient health records.