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PHOENIX, – Arizona’s Medicaid program, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, is implementing an IT platform to manage its healthcare transactions. “The purpo...
WHO: Healthcare costs drive global poverty Healthcare costs are not just a major concern in the United States, according to a report published in Health Affairs. Healthcare is respons...
Rural home care provider makes expansion moves A provider network of home health and hospice services has entered a partnership with the University of Tennessee Medical Center to expa...
NEW YORK – Slow adoption and anticipated high development costs have prompted American Express to drop out of the healthcare payment card business. The New York-based financial ser...
TOLEDO, OH – Reaction to the proposed purchase of Manor Care Inc. has been muted since the nursing home chain announced a proposed leveraged buyout of the company. Manor Care op...
FRAMINGHAM, MA – There’s no shortage of companies hoping to participate in the health savings account boom. Data from a report on the accounts suggest that some 1,2...
WASHINGTON – The bipartisan Senate Finance Committee overwhelmingly passed a proposal to renew and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program on July 19. The committee...
WASHINGTON – Advocacy groups are applauding Rep. Pete Stark’s (D-Calif.) proposal to protect Medicare beneficiaries from marketing practices that he deems “propaganda.”...
Here’s a tip to managers of healthcare facilities: If Medicare officials drop by to see if they’re funding a high-quality organization, you’d better be sure you’re running one....
THE BRITANNICA CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA describes the Zen philosophy as one that believes “enlightenment is inherent in everyone but lies dormant because of ignorance. It is best awakened by bre...