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By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
To assist small to medium-sized practices and community health centers in Georgia and South Carolina, electronic health record provider Sevocity will offer up to $100,000 in grants to spur clinics in...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
CHICAGO – In an effort to boost transparency, the American Medical Association has released an insurer report card that lays bare the differences among seven national health insurers when it com...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
New research reveals that healthcare executives place a higher priority on energy efficiency than other industry executives and are more likely to expect to make improvements over the next year....
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
The new $829 million Ronald Reagan Medical Center opened its doors last month, culminating years of construction and planning.The 1-million-square-foot building contains 520 beds and includes...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
BSCF expands infection prevention programMore than 50 hospitals in California will be joining the Blue Shield of California Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Initiative, an effort...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
WASHINGTON – The Medical Group Management Association is asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to call a “time out” on implementing the latest phase of changes to t...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has awarded more than $49 million in grants to 30 states to provide health insurance to residents who can't get conventional coverage because of the...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed new efforts to promote access to higher-quality and more efficient healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries under the 2009 M...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
Adequate financing, improving the quality of care services and developing an adequate, skilled workforce are some of the urgent challenges facing long-term care in the future, said respondents to the...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | July 22, 2008
AUGUSTA, ME –Maine’s Dirigo Health Association has estimated savings of $190.2 million in 2007 – but associations around the state are disputing the DHA’s healthcare premium ta...