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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...
Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) have released a discussion draft of legislation that would provide for greater dis...
Through a new preferred business affiliate agreement, Cielo MedSolutions' customers will have access to TransforMED's practice transformation services and TransforMED will encourage medical practices...
The Massachusetts Hospital Association has released a first-of-its-kind scorecard on health plans' administrative practices serving hospitals in the state. Among the headaches reported, coding r...
With the first phase of Medicare's mandate for e-prescribing rolling out in January, healthcare IT leaders, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, gathered Tuesday in Boston to ju...
A Manhattan-based radiology clinic is touting a 40 percent cut in accounts receivable days as a result of going paperless.Lenox Hill Radiology, which opened in 1988, is also celebrating busin...
When it comes to tracking down unlicensed copies of the company's eFilm Workstation software, Merge Healthcare is choosing compassion over court action.Officials of the Milwaukee-based develo...
LONDON - Financial analysts who track healthcare technology companies Misys and Allscripts say Misys should have no problem obtaining the $305 million it needs to complete the planned merger wit...
WHILE THE claims management market is mature and industry vendors have mastered its complexity, the market is moving toward adjusting to three main drivers, said Sheila Schweitzer, CEO of CareMedic...
Emdeon, a Nashville, Ten.-based developer of revenue and payment cycle management products for the healthcare industry, has acquired the patient statement business of GE Healthcare Information Technol...