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WASHINGTON – A program that provides financial incentives to hospitals that meet quality of care standards has been financially restructured and extended three years by the Centers for Medicare...

WASHINGTON – Action to provide healthcare coverage to the nation’s 47 million uninsured residents must be taken immediately, Senators and health experts agreed at a recent Senate Finance C...

LEAWOOD, KS - Fourteen of the nation’s 460 accredited family medicine residencies are participating in an initiative to look at new ways to provide practice management training to personal physi...

WITH THE U.S. facing a 2006 healthcare tab of $2.1 trillion and healthcare a staggering 16 percent of the gross domestic product, it’s not hard to see why potential “solutions” are s...

Because of practice management costs and high income taxes, many physicians find themselves struggling financially when retirement approaches. Recent studies have looked at the various strategies...

STAMFORD, CT – While a large majority of providers are using technology to verify patients’ eligibility, many are not aware of initiatives under way to reduce common administrative hassles...

WASHINGTON – Employers who want to contain healthcare costs should consider implementing innovative benefit designs, said a recent study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change...

By ricHard A. norling and Stephanie Alexander Regardless of how it’s funded, pay for performance, or value-based purchasing, is coming. Congress has mandate...

COVINGTON, KY – When financial professionals think of emergency departments, they often don’t think of bill collection as a natural extension of operations. Emergency care often is as...

MINNEAPOLIS – UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest managed care organizations, took a bold step last month to boost its footprint in the western U.S. by acquiring Sierra Health...