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A new report shows that alcohol-related problems take a $38.4 billion toll annually on the state of California. Alcohol-related illnesses alone represent 47 percent or $18.2 billion of the an...
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...
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...
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...
According to a recent report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute, medical cost trends in the private sector will drop from 9.9 percent in 2008 to 9.6 p...
WAYNE, PA – The way David St. Clair sees it, MEDecision’s merger agreement with the Health Care Service Corporation, announced in June, couldn’t have come at a better time.T...
CHARLESTON, SC – A well-known provider of IT solutions for the healthcare benefits market is betting that a message can be delivered much more effectively with pictures, rather than text....
Faced with sagging stock prices and running out of assets to sell off, MedAvant Healthcare Solutions has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.The Atlanta-based provider of healthcare te...
Proper maintenance of records, complete reporting on forms and strict adherence to regulations should keep not-for-profit hospitals in good standing with the Internal Revenue Service over executive co...