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If the nation’s top health insurers would fix their ailing claims processes, physicians could focus more on patients and the system could save as much as $200 billion a year, American Medical Association officials say.

The American Medical Association says more healing is needed before it can pronounce healthcare's claims process cured. A key problem is inconsistency, highlighting the need for standardization, the AMA says.

Grants for nursing education have been awarded to seven California community college-university partnerships.

According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, more than half of Americans surveyed believe that if universal health coverage is passed by Congress, it will not ensure equal access to care because of capacity constraints, particularly in emergency rooms.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index found that Americans' confidence in their health insurance coverage and access to healthcare rose slightly in June.

The nation could save billions of dollars each year in the healthcare system by addressing certain areas of administrative complexity, according to a new report from the Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition.

The nation could save billions of dollars each year in the healthcare system by reducing administrative complexity, according to the Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition.

St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading, Pa., has selected a vendor to manage the medical billing processes for its physician network.

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named a new Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for Jurisdiction 7, which includes Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Hospitals in the Los Angeles market are struggling to recruit physicians, particularly sub-specialists, to be on-call to provide emergency care.