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By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | October 01, 2008
Experts disagree over the likelihood of success to be derived from the healthcare reform plans made by presidential candidates Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).With h...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | October 01, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now publishing most of the edits used in its Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE) program to improve the accuracy of claims payments."It is alw...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | October 01, 2008
In a sign that Royal Philips Electronics may be refining its healthcare division, Nuance Communications has announced that it has acquired the Dutch electronic giant's Speech Recognition Systems busin...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 30, 2008
National retail pharmacy chain Walgreens has paid the United States government and four participating states $9.9 million to resolve allegations of falsely billing the Medicaid program.Walgre...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 30, 2008
Medicaid enrollment is up and state budgets are down, making for some tough times in state Medicaid programs, according to an annual Kaiser Family Foundation Medicaid report released Monday....
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 30, 2008
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced $36 million in new grant programs to 28 states to help senior citizens and veterans remain independent and to support people with Alzheim...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | September 30, 2008
MaineCare doesn't have liberal eligibility and people don't move in and out of the state based upon benefits supplied by the program, but it covers a high percentage of Maine's over-65 population....
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | September 30, 2008
Medi-CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, a not-for-profit healthcare insurer, has signed a three-year, multi-million dollar contract with Andover, Mass.-based technology company CGI Group for business p...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | September 29, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has scheduled a series of national provider calls that will offer an overview of ICD-10 and how it differs from ICD-9-CM.The presentations will...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 29, 2008
A new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) claims that the healthcare platform of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) may threaten healthcare coverage for millions....