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LifePoint Hospitals saw an increase in its continuing operations revenues for both the fourth quarter and year ending Dec. 31, 2010.
Preferred Care Partners has entered the Medicaid market with the launch of CareFlorida, a new health plan serving Medicaid recipients in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Preferred Care Partners is one of the largest private Medicare-Advantage plans in Florida.
A report from Moody's Investors Services shows that changes in employee benefits plan designs as well as new medical management techniques such as employee wellness programs are playing a large role in reducing demand for healthcare services.
Craneware, Inc., a provider of automated revenue integrity solutions for the U.S. healthcare market, has acquired Nashville-based ClaimTrust, Inc., a Software-as-a-Service revenue cycle technology vendor.
In a letter to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer earlier this week, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius informed Brewer that the state does not need an HHS waiver for its plans to remove more than 250,000 people from its Medicaid rolls.
University of North Carolina Hospitals will be using Carefx Corporation's Fusionfx Physician Insight Plus performance improvement dashboard to compare performance and increase efficiency and patient satisfaction.
We've seen the ease with which he bested his human opponents on the Jeopardy! challenge. Next up for Watson the supercomputer? Improving the delivery of healthcare.
HP Enterprise Services and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority have signed a $281 million, seven-year contract aimed at preparing the state for healthcare reform mandates and making more services available to the state's Medicaid program members.
Twenty people, including three doctors, have been charged in Florida for their part in a $200 million fraudulent Medicare billing scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services have announced.
3M Health Information Systems and Nuance Communications have announced a collaboration to develop a next generation, ICD-10-ready clinical documentation improvement solution.