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America's Health Insurance Plans has offered a healthcare reform proposal to achieve universal coverage, reduce the growth of healthcare costs and improve the quality of medical care."Ou...
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services has awarded $44 million in Health Care Stabilization Fund grants to six financially distressed hospitals in order to maintain healthcare access...
Emdeon, which develops and markets revenue and payment cycle management technology for the healthcare industry, has unveiled the U.S. Healthcare Efficiency Index to monitor business efficiency in heal...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed three national coverage determinations (NCDs) to establish uniform national policies designed to prevent Medicare from paying for certain...
Healthcare IT can improve the quality of care received by the chronically ill and lower costs, according to a report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The report, issued by A...
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) have asked the Government Accountability Office to study best practices used by states, hospitals and other c...
Humana Military Healthcare Services, a subsidiary of Humana Inc. and the TRICARE Contractor for the South Region announced that MinuteClinic services would be available to TRICARE beneficiaries in a n...
State officials are urging the federal government to help them with a $140 billion budget shortfall expected before 2010. Due to the declining economy, states face an increased call for Medic...
Highmark providers, such as primary care physicians, specialists, healthcare facilities and hospitals, now have access to tools to assist them in discussions with Highmark members about out-of-pocket...
The Condell Health Network has agreed without litigation to pay the United States and the state of Illinois $36 million as a result of filing false claims for reimbursement.The health system volunt...