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Patients paying with plastic find themselves in debtThe latest issue of Consumer Reports looks at how some patients, after being encouraged and sometimes pressured to use their credit card...
HARTFORD, CT – Payers need to re-engineer and restructure their legacy systems to adequately handle rising inflation, healthcare spending, employer pressure to reduce premiums and marketplace pr...
Based on results of an annual study conducted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), hospitals are expected to spend about 3 percent of their budgets on healthcare infor...
WASHINGTON - Just when doctors thought things couldn’t get much worse, experts say, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has thrown another wrench into the already difficult transiti...
SAN FRANCISCO – More than 1,000 protesters converged outside the Moscone Convention Center on June 19 during the America’s Health Insurance Plans’ annual conference.Demonst...
The New $829 million Ronald Reagan Medical Center has opened its doors after relocating 275 hospital patients and 60 psychiatric patients to its new facility. The 1 million-square-foot buildi...
Though Congress is in recess until July 8, the battle rages on over how to fund a potential physician payment fix needed to forestall a 10.6 payment cut for physicians participating in Medicare that w...
ARLINGTON, VA – The American Association for Homecare has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to halt the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ “faulty implementation” of the...
CHICAGO – Medical tourism and medical student debt burden were two of the hot topics at a five-day, mid-June meeting of the American Medical Association at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago....
ALEXANDRIA, VA – In a move expected to give a major boost to the interconnectivity needed to accelerate the adoption of electronic prescribing, the two networks formed to support electronic pres...