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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the largest healthcare payer in the country, has released a plan for upgrading its computer and data systems with the aim of providing better care.
State policy experts have named healthcare reform as one of the top issues that state lawmakers should expect to face in 2011.
Two healthcare networks in North Carolina's competitive Research Triangle are waging a sometimes-heated battle for affiliations with local physician practices.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has awarded $206 million in bonus payments to 15 sates that have made significant progress in increasing the number of children enrolled in Medicaid.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, is pressuring the Obama administration to defend how it has spent money fighting Medicare fraud.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opens January 3. Eligible professionals, hospitals and critical access hospitals must use certified EHR technology to be eligible.
Lillibridge Healthcare Services, a subsidiary of the Chicago-based Ventas healthcare real estate investment trust, has acquired five medical office buildings on the campuses of two ThedaCare hospitals in Wisconsin.
According to a new study, one in six physicians in 2008 reported that their practice owned or leased advanced imaging equipment.
As the December 31 Medicare open enrollment deadline grows closer, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports record-level enrollment activity from seniors.
Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Georgia, Missouri, New York and Virginia have reported that they donated more than a million dollars apiece to charities in 2010.