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The SCIOinspire Corp., a provider of analytics-driven business process solutions for health plans and hospitals, has acquired National Audit, a healthcare claims audit and payment integrity services provider to large commercial and Medicare and Medicaid payers and pharmacy benefit managers.
Two years after the reauthorization and expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, a state-by-state scorecard designed to evaluate how the system is working finds wide geographic disparities, according to the Commonwealth Fund.
Online advertised vacancies for healthcare practitioners, technical staff and support personnel increased significantly in January, according to a report released this week.
Blue Shield of California will comply with a request by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones to delay planned rate hikes for nearly 200,000 individual policy holders for 60 days to allow the commissioner's office time to examine them.
Investment in healthcare companies fell 7 percent in 2010 to $7.4 billion for 702 deals, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. The industry's smallest sector, Healthcare Services, saw the strongest growth, tripling the capital raised in 2009.
A new study by the American Medical Association shows that many health insurance markets across the country lack significant competition and are instead dominated by one or two insurance companies.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing an online toolkit and electronic user manual to help providers and health plans understand and establish the requirements for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule.
Apple, eBay, HP, Intel, Intuit and Oracle have joined to provide $150 million to help support the building of the New Stanford Hospital, which is being called a global model for patient-centered and technologically advanced healthcare.
A survey of allied health programs at California community colleges casts doubts on the state's ability to produce the healthcare workers it will need in coming years.
A report from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United charges that health insurers in California denied 26 percent of all claims submitted through the first nine months of 2010.