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Pharmaceutical costs take a toll on both providers and patients, prompting people to avoid necessary medications while taking a big chunk out of a hospital’s bottom line. Cardinal Health is fighting those problems through a seven-year-old software program that connects uninsured patients with free or discounted medications.
Health plans and employers looking to encourage healthier lifestyles are turning to social networking to get the point across. And a three-year-old wellness company is giving them the platform to drive results.
A recent merger of two workforce management vendors is designed to help hospitals and other healthcare providers improve staffing efficiency and the bottom line.
Healthcare providers and payers don't often see eye-to-eye on reimbursement issues. But that's ever the more reason to get them together in the same room, better yet at the same table.
Between September 2008 and September 2009 the nation's top eight health insurance plans saw membership decline by 1.7 million.
Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession - only much, much worse.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $4.3 billion in financial relief to states through reductions in payments that offset the cost of prescription drug coverage for Medicare and Medicaid eligible patients.
Primary care physicians in Massachusetts are seeing measurable improvements in important aspects of healthcare quality, according to Massachusetts Health Quality Partners.
Since implementing an electronic health record system in 1997, Heart of Texas Community Health Center has tripled the number of its patients, expanded from a single location to 10 sites, and shown improvement in important quality indicators.
L.A. Care Health Plans’ Oral Health Initiative has awarded more than $600,000 to 9 community health organizations to improve access to dental services in Los Angeles County.