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WALTHAM, MA – Tenet Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest hospital chains, is paying $900 million to resolve charges that it had cheated the government by overbilling Medicare and paying...
OAKLAND, CA – The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan is pushing for stricter and fairer rules to cover cancellations of individual health policies. Kaiser is in discussio...
OAKLAND, CA – Kaiser Permanente has been selling its health savings accounts in California since August, but the product rollout only became effective on January 1. During th...
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has launched another piece of the Bush administration’s value-driven healthcare plan to expand transparency in cost and quality...
A friend and I were discussing a plan to overhaul Maine’s school system, reducing the number of districts from more than 400 to 26. Even though we’re both skeptical of the promised $29...
The latest results of Healthcare Finance News’ NewsMonitor poll show that nearly twice as many respondents predict 2007 will produce a better bottom line than 2006. In January, we ask...
Tax credits for Americans buying their own insurance, leveraged federal funding to states with programs to cover the uninsured and a plea to save Medicare and Medicaid were the driving points of an am...
Hospitals across the country are outsourcing more specialized patient services, such as dialysis, diagnostic imaging and hospice care, according to the results of a study released Jan. 22....
A 78-year-old woman living in Michigan may pay $4,113 in annual out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs covered under that state's least expensive Medicare drug plan. A woman of the same age in Ohi...
Salt Lake City-based 3M Health Information Systems has added a module to its 3M Coding and Reimbursement System to enable medical necessity validation at the point of c...