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WASHINGTON – Despite growing concern from the durable medical equipment industry and Congress, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has taken the next step in its plan to implement a...
SAN FRANCISCO – Helping providers maneuver their way through the intricacies of healthcare payments has always been one of the goals of RelayHealth. Now the McKesson subsidiary, which offers a p...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand – The land of Russell Crowe, Crowded House and kiwis is trying to attract Americans and Canadians seeking less expensive medical care.Medtral New Zealand, based in...
WASHINGTON – The American Medical Association is countering efforts calling for the increased regulation of specialty hospitals owned by physicians.In May, the hospital industry upped t...
HARTFORD, CT – Aetna is the first U.S. health plan to establish a policy of requiring all of its vendors to provide employees with health insurance by 2011.Aetna is working with its ven...
CMS announces demo for hospital-physician paymentThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services want to test an approach of bundling payment for both hospital and physician services. CMS...
NEW YORK - Commonwealth Fund researchers have created a plan that would insure 44 million of the estimated 48 million uninsured Americans in 2008 and save approximately $1.6 trillion over the next 10...
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has turned its attention to changing the Medicare hospice wage index.Among other planned changes, CMS announced in late April...
Express Scripts, one of the nation's largest pharmacy benefits management companies, has reached a settlement agreement with the state of Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia and 28 other states res...
Microsoft Corp. officials announced that the company's HealthVault Be Well Fund has increased its funding to $4.5 million after receiving nearly 200 proposals from leading academic and research health...