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Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania is licensing a service that will securely send members' health and healthcare finance information to electronic devices, including PDAs and cell phones....
Contributed by Jamie Cleverley Several months ago, I was in San Diego for a presentation on hospital pricing. One of the primary discussions involved California’s higher relativ...
BJACKSONVILLE, FL – Hoping to duplicate success with its two Georgia plans, a national carrier is implementing its automated payment process system for its Ohio plans. The...
students, physicians lobby Congress on uninsured Congress saw students, physicians and other healthcare industry stakeholders lobby for expanded coverage during the American Med...
The current Medicare physician payment formula is "fatally flawed" and should be replaced with one that better reflects the reality of practice cost increases, say doctors, congressional advisors, law...
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 and Medicaid Servic...
In a speech delivered to the 2007 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition Thursday morning, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said he expects a rapid transformation to a competition-b...
A new plan to fund local organizations to assess and report on providers' quality of care performance was announced Wednesday by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt....
A hospital's CEO doesn't typically do rounds at midnight, particularly to allay IT concerns. But that's what Salem Hospital's CEO did to ensure that front-line users felt comfortable with the facility...
On the day prior to the official start of HIMSS 2007, a new conference-related event brought together leaders of emerging healthcare IT companies and venture capitalists looking to invest in the indus...