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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...

Boston-based HealthHonors has launched its new behavior modification technology, a program that aims at motivating patients to adhere to drug therapy and wellness initiatives by using a points-reward...

A veteran of the healthcare information technology industry has been tapped to lead AdvancedMD, nearly six months after the Salt Lake City-based provider of records management, billing and scheduling...

California's pharmacies won a court order last Friday to halt the proposed 10 percent payment cuts for prescription drugs dispensed under the Medi-Cal program. The action was made in response...

Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital will launch an electronic health record, thanks to a $334,268 grant from a state charitable fund.The $50 million fund was established by state regulators in 20...

A report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has revealed that the recovery audit contractors (RAC) pilot program is successfully identifying improper payments - so much so that $693.6...

TransUnion, based in Chicago, has announced a partnership with San Diego-based Benchmark Revenue Management that will integrated TransUnion’s healthcare revenue cycle platform and...

The Senate approved a bill on Thursday that will phase out Medicare's higher co-pays for mental health services, bringing them in line with co-pays for physical healthcare services.The Senate...

Miami resident Aisa Perera, 42, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for her role in an $11 million scheme to defraud the Medicare program.Judge Federico A. Moreno of the Southern Distri...

More than 50 hospitals in California will be joining the Blue Shield of California Foundation's expanded California Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Initiative, an effort to curb the million...