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IBM announced plans Thursday to enlist some of its leading scientists and technologists to help medical practitioners and payers provide high-quality, evidence-based care to patients.
The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury have announced new regulations requiring new private health plans to cover evidence-based preventive services and eliminate cost-sharing requirements for those services.
Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee are calling on their leader to set a confirmation hearing for the man who has taken the reins of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, which has an $800 billion annual budget.
Marquette General Hospital and Bell Hospital in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have agreed to create an Accountable Care Organization, to be called Superior Health Partners.
The American Hospital Association is not pleased with final regulations on the meaningful use of health IT.
Two Detroit-area home healthcare providers have pled guilty in U.S. District Court for their roles in a home-health scheme to defraud Medicare according to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
With healthcare reform and recent economic challenges on the minds of many executives, new pressures are influencing how compensation is structured as medical groups seek to recruit and retain physicians.
The 2010 Healthcare Compensation Study reveals a continued slowing of salary increases for healthcare employees, but shows that turnover has been reduced dramatically.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida launched its new mobile web site less than three weeks ago, but early tracking reveals "encouraging" usage for both members and nonmembers.
A new partnership is designed to help home health and hospice service workers improve their business through automated revenue cycle management.