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Providers and payers making a good-faith effort to meet May 23 deadline for national provider identifier compliance will have as much as 12 more months to start using the identifiers on claim forms, t...

Healthaxis, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based provider of integrated business process solutions and services, including claims and benefit administration applications, Web-enabled software...

President Bush is not the only one pressing for more information to be available to healthcare consumers. According to Adam Bosworth, vice president of Google, the private in...

Nursing home industry faces “perfect storm” California’s nursing home industry is facing a “perfect storm” of problems associated with finances, qual...

ELMWOOD PARK, NJ – Emdeon Corp. will soon be rolling out an initiative to help connect payers and providers with an electronic payment and remittance service. Emdeon is planning...

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ – Long known for its background in imaging and radiology solutions, Agfa HealthCare is entering the American EMR market with the launch of its ORBIS platform at Sampson Regio...

NON-PROFIT HOSPITALS that don’t painstakingly document their charitable activities and other benevolent services are running the risk of getting targeted for a PILOT program, health policy speci...

Consumers see the logic of pairing flexible savings accounts with prepaid cards that enable healthcare providers to gain payment from consumers' FSA balances right after services are rendered....

WILMINGTON, DE – Last July, the research firm HealthCore released a study showing that use of a patient clinical summary (PCS) electronic health record in an emergency department results in sign...

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expected to publish a Notice of Proposed Rule Making in April as it moves toward a more comprehensive implementation of a severity-...