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Nothing tears at a healthcare provider’s conscience like debt collection. On one hand, clinicians tend to be compassionate by nature, and their training emphasizes healing patients above all els...

TEMPLE, TX – The effects of the nursing shortage on outpatient centers are similar to those on hospitals, but clinics are at a disadvantage as they compete for the same nursing supply with hospi...

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill introduced shortly before the start of National Nurses Week in May would protect nurses from working mandatory overtime hours, one of the the more controversial me...

HILLSBORO, OR – Luis Machuca is a man with a mission. He wants the nation’s health plans to realize they won’t survive without change. “They haven’t changed...

LONDON – Picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) have moved mainstream in North America and Europe. The imaging systems, once regarded by clinicians as pricey and cumberso...

WellPoint health ousts CFO over misconduct Top executives at WellPoint Health Networks Inc. have requested and received the resignation of David C. Colby, the company’s chief...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Cigna HealthCare’s April announcement that the health plan would deploy Intuit’s online health tool, Quicken Health, to its members in 2008 marks an early victory...

WASHINGTON  – The use of healthcare IT can lower costs and also deliver better care, says Brent James, MD, vice president of medical research and executive director of the Institute of H...

Nearly every state has a Medicaid estate recovery program to recoup some of the costs of deceased patients’ long-term care. However, most recipients and their families don’t know such...

WASHINGTON – A bleak report on the long-term financial health of Medicare issued by the program’s federal trustees signals a pending collapse of the payment structure used to reimburse phy...