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The top issue plaguing the healthcare industry is the economic downturn, according to a report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers in December.The traditionally recession-proof healthcare indust...
The Rite Aid Corporation and nine subsidiaries in eight states have agreed to pay $5 million in civil penalties to settle allegations of violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act.Ac...
Integration capability weighs heavily on hospital executives replacing legacy lab systems and revenue management technology, according to two new reports from research firm KLAS.Seventeen per...
United HealthGroup has agreed to a $50 million settlement following an investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo into charges that the insurer overcharged its members millions of dollars...
Benefitfocus, based in Charleston, S.C., has announced that CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the Mid-Atlantic’s largest healthcare insurer, has selected the company to provide a comprehens...
The current economic downturn has affected women's ability to plan and prepare for expensive long-term care costs such as nursing home stays, according to a survey released by America's Health Insuran...
Long-term care facilities that purchase through CHIPS Purchasing, a recently established group purchasing organization for small- to mid-sized long-term care chains, now have access to the full portfo...
Employment at U.S. hospitals rose 0.25 percent in December 2008 to a seasonally adjusted 4,711,300 people, according to a report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics last week.The repo...
The Medical Group Management Association has launched an industry wide effort calling on health insurers, vendors and health care providers to adopt standardized, machine-readable patient ID cards by...
President-elect Barack Obama once again turned his focus on healthcare and technology over the weekend as he addressed the nation on the topic of unemployment in his weekly radio address, promising to...