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WASHINGTON – In its letter last month to top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services, the American Medical Association detailed “serious concerns” about the dis...
WASHINGTON – The Congressional Budget Office has issued a Medicare spending report that provides new insight to the relationship between physician compensation levels and patient volume....
SAN DIEGO – A financial services firm and a healthcare services and technology company are partnering to offer an integrated set of claim and payment processing solutions and plan to targ...
The world of strategic planning in healthcare has become more complex, with concepts such as “scenario planning,” “game theory” and “nonlinear analysis” being discu...
PLANO, TX – Shareholders of Triad Hospitals Inc. last month approved the company’s acquisition by Community Health Systems Inc. Under terms of the merger agreement, Triad shareho...
Workplace options unveils increased risk HRA Workplace Options, a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of work-life employee benefits, is unveiling a health risk assessment (HRA) to hel...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued new rules last week to make it easier for states to approve applicants to the Medicaid program. The rules, issued July 2,...
MINNEAPOLIS – It never hurts to have good advice. That’s the thinking that officials at Ingenix, a Minneapolis-based health information technology firm, employed i...
ATLANTA – A telehealth system is improving care for a facility’s heart failure patients while saving money for a specialty treatment center at Piedmont Hospital. Atlanta...
DALLAS – Physicians in small- to medium-sized practices are hesitant to embrace information technology, often because they think new solutions are too expensive and/or complicated to install...