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The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) awarded $9.1 million in funding to 77 medical students in 30 states and the District of Columbia who will serve as primary care doctors in medically underserved areas and help strengthen the healthcare workforce.
Author and documentary filmmaker, T.R. Reid, talks to Healthcare Finance News about his new PBS film, "U.S. Health Care: The Good News," and about healthcare issues facing the country. We run the final part of our conversation today.
More than two-thirds of the complete electronic health records of providers and hospitals that have qualified for meaningful use incentives are dually certified under both the ONC-ATCB and the CCHIT Certified programs, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) announced.
As the FDA issued draft guidance on biosimilar product development, a new report finds the global market for biosimilars is forecast to reach $4.8 billion by the year 2015.
Author and documentary filmmaker, T.R. Reid, talks to Healthcare Finance News about his new PBS film, "U.S. Health Care: The Good News," and about healthcare issues facing the country. We run part one of our conversation today.
Revenue and payment cycle specialist Recondo Technology announced last week it had acquired revenue cycle competitor Lakewood, Fla.-based Trilogi, Inc., in a move that broadens Recondo's customer base.
The Louisiana Hospital Association (LHA) announced Jan. 24 a new workplace wellness initiative for hospitals throughout the state.
A new HHS regulation set to take effect October 1 will require health insurers to publish marketing materials in plain language in an attempt to eliminate technical or confusing language that can often make if difficult for consumers to understand exactly what they are buying.
Health insurers will now be required to publish marketing materials in plain language and eliminate the technical or confusing language that can often make if difficult for consumers to understand exactly what they are buying, under a new provision of health reform.
In a recent WIHI radio show titled "The Social Imperative to Demonstrate That Better Care Equals Lower Costs," Donald Berwick, MD, former administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Gerry Shea, assistant to the president for governmental affairs at the AFL-CIO, spoke on the climbing costs associated with today's healthcare system.