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The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week its approval of the first new hospital accreditation organization in more than 30 years.The decision allows DNV Healt...
Congress has approved $20 million for a new lung cancer research program at the Department of Defense. The program, entitled the Peer Reviewed Lung Cancer Research Program, will be administered and fu...
Henry Schein Medical Systems, a Boardman, Ohio-based provider of practice management (PM) and electronic medical records (EMR) systems, has announced that Advanced Medical Management of Baltimo...
Misys has secured sufficient funding requirements to satisfy the terms of an upcoming merger of its Raleigh, N.C.-based healthcare unit with Allscripts.Officials of the London-based banking a...
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose to $12,680 annually for family coverage this year Ð up 5 percent from last year, according to an annual study released Sept. 23 by the Kaiser...
Managed care tactics are changing these days and healthcare institutions need to be vigilant when dealing with denied claims, said an industry expert at the Maine Chapter of the Healthcare Financial M...
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Kerry Weems announced the 2009 Medicare prescription drug and Medicare Advantage plan options Thursday.Weems said 97 percent...
The winning projects were chosen from 184 funding applications submitted by state and local health departments. Only the 62 state, local and territorial public health departments currently receiving f...
A federal jury this week convicted the owner and operator of Pacific City Group, Inc., a Los Angeles-based durable medical equipment company, of defrauding the Medicare program of more than $1.1 milli...
Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., has agreed to pay the United States $3.85 million, plus interest, to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare."(The) settlement demonstra...