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By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | October 13, 2008
Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, their caregivers and family members can now review 2009 Medicare prescription drug plans and health plans online through the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | October 13, 2008
Officials of the brand-new AllscriptsMisys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. are out to prove that bigger is better.Company officials formally announced the merger on Monday of Chicago-based Allscri...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | October 10, 2008
Medicare beneficiaries, their caregivers and family members can review 2009 Medicare prescription drug and health plan information online in anticipation of open enrollment Nov. 15 through Dec. 31, 20...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | October 10, 2008
Microsoft, Scripps Health, Affymetrix and Navigenics will launch what the companies say is ground-breaking research to evaluate the impact of personal genetic testing on the health and psyche of a pat...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | October 10, 2008
President Bush today signed the Health Care Safety Net Act of 2008 into law.  According to the bill's sponsor, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and P...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | October 10, 2008
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded 18 cooperative agreements worth approximately $146 million over six years to provide comprehensive community mental h...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | October 09, 2008
Yakima Valley Radiology in Washington has licensed Zotec Partners' Electronic Billing Center (EBC) practice management/billing software suite in order to streamline its billing process, enhance workfl...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | October 09, 2008
According to a new survey, 89 percent of hospital executives are reporting poor patient flow at their facilities, and are concerned about how to improve productivity to meet patient demand in the futu...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | October 08, 2008
The Medicare Fraud Strike Force has indicted eight Miami-Dade County residents on 16 counts of Medicare fraud involving fake HIV infusion treatments, according to Acting Assistant Attorney General of...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | October 08, 2008
HealthPartners, billed as the largest consumer-governed nonprofit healthcare organization in the nation, has launched a new Web tool that provides prices for 83 procedures at its network primary care...