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WASHINGTON – The government should do a better job of providing oversight of state Medicaid finances, according to a March report issued by the General Accountability Office. The 54-p...

I start out this editorial with a plea for advice – I’m on a quest to figure how to get my children to do chores. Mind you, this has been an ongoing project for many years. M...

Contributed by Robert Tennant It seemed straightforward and simple: transition all providers from the current cumbersome system of multiple proprietary identification numbers to a singl...

LOS ANGELES – Residents and interns work long hours at UCLA Medical Center, but there’s no time to waste on their shifts. And time is money, as the medical center tries to de...

The Connecticut State Medical Society has struck a deal with a software provider that is expected to bring price breaks on the vendor's products for as many as 7,000 physicians....

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are continuing to ratchet up the pressure on specialty hospitals, now requiring them to improve their ability to treat patients with eme...

WASHINGTON – Congress has introduced a bipartisan proposal to expand and streamline the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Under the Healthy Kids Act of 2007, sp...

Just a year ago we published our first issue of Healthcare Finance News, distributing the premiere edition at the HFMA’s Annual National Institute in Orlando. Today, this newspaper – w...

Contributed by Joanne McCool If you cherish your sanity, this is no time to be a hospital administrator. The number of hospitals operating in the red demonstrates the mounting financial obs...

State efforts to cover the uninsured could be pivotal in promoting federal action to insure the more than 46 million Americans without coverage, according to experts. A...