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The Department of Health and Human Services has levied a $100,000 fine on Seattle-based Providence Health and Services for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
The Minnesota Bridges to Excellence program will recognize 104 clinics from 22 medical groups in Minnesota, western Wisconsin and North Dakota by paying physicians cash bonuses for meeting diabetes an...
Healthvision is setting its sights on the Canadian market with the acquisition of MediSolution, Ltd.'s healthcare unit.In a deal announced Wednesday, the Dallas-based provider of healthcare I...
Estimated to be a $700 million project, Kaiser Permanente plans to open a new, energy-efficient hospital on its Fontana Medical Center campus in Southern California by the fall of 2013. The s...
The Convergys Corporation will acquire Dallas-based Intervoice, Inc. for $335 million in cash or $8.25 per share. The acquisition will expand Cincinnati-based Convergys' automated and live agent offer...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has doled out more than $36 million in bonus payments to many of the approximately 56,700 health professionals who satisfactorily reported quality inform...
Physicians can rest easy for at least another year. In a Tuesday night vote, Congress easily cleared the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (H.R. 6331) with enough v...
A new report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services indicates the federal government recovered nearly $700 million in improper Medicare payments through its recovery audit contractors (RA...
Ten states have activated new substance abuse prevention and treatment health codes for screening and brief intervention (SBI) of Medicaid-eligible patients, according to Dr. Bertha K. Madras, deputy...
Transylvania Community Hospital, a 94-bed not-for-profit hospital located in Brevard, N.C., is using a three-year, $540,000 federal grant to install an electronic medical record to communicate with lo...