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The House introduced legislation Wednesday to help small business provide health insurance to their employees. The bipartisan Cooperative for Healthcare Options to Improve Coverage for Employ...

A representative of the largest medical specialty organization in the United States told Congress Thursday that mandating the use of healthcare IT in the absence of positive financial incentives for p...

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, has proposed an overhaul of the Medicare physician payment system to prevent geographic adjusters from penalizing doc...

Executive search firms form strategic allianceTwo of the nation’s leading healthcare executive search firms have formed a strategic alliance. CES Partners Ltd. and Hersher Associates...

DALLAS – Healthvision is setting its sights on the Canadian market with the acquisition of MediSolution, Ltd.’s healthcare unit.In a deal announced July 16, the Dallas-based provi...

The push to make healthcare more consumer-friendly has reached into yet another staple of everyday life: The cell phone.The development of Apple’s new iPhone, whose 3G version was laun...

PROVIDERS are facing greater pressure to streamline their operations, according to Paul Pitcher, director of financial systems at KLAS. There is an ever-increasing focus on such areas as denials ma...

Healthcare staffing services provider Cross Country Health has acquired privately-held Medical Doctors Associates, Inc., and its subsidiaries for $112.3 million in cash, in a bid to expand the company...

With a depressed economy and already strained state budgets, a House panel on Tuesday considered extending emergency federal assistance to state Medicaid programs.The House Energy and Commerc...

Eight Iowa hospitals would be given better treatment by the Medicare program and be put in a stronger position to provide healthcare services under legislation introduced Tuesday by Sen. Charles Grass...