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Panelists at the New England HIMSS Chapter Conference on HIT, held Oct 17 in South Portland, say it will take a lot of work to correct technical and financial problems in the healthcare industry....
Operating costs at many medical group practices rose faster than revenues in 2007, according to a new survey by the Medical Group Management Association.The MGMA released the results of its &...
With five million people - or one in 10 workers - in the healthcare sector, the healthcare industry has the second largest employer base behind the food service industry, according to Anthony Burke, p...
Arrowhead Radiology Medical Group has selected McKesson to manage its revenue cycle operations.McKesson's Revenue Management Solutions group will provide services designed for the Colton, Cal...
Private fee-for-service Medicare Advantage plans will be paid, on average, 16.6 percent more in 2008 compared to what the same enrollees would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service pro...
The so-called "medical home" concept is critically dependent on information technology, said David Howes, MD, president and CEO of Martin's Point Health Care, a not-for-profit healthcare org...
According to Jay Khosla, health policy advisor to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), there are elements to McCain's plan that Democrats could support.McCain's plan...
There are no winning or losing sides when it comes to reforming U.S. healthcare, said David Cutler, health advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). "It's...
Spending on Medicaid is expected to substantially outpace the rate of growth in the U.S. economy over the next decade, according to a report released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services....
Canopy Financial, a San Francisco-based developer of healthcare banking technology services, has acquired CareGain, Inc., a subsidiary of Chicago-based Fiserv, Inc. that provides consumer-directed hea...