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Responding to evidence that beneficiaries need protection from predatory marketing practices, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday toughened standards for selling Medicare Advant...
Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., a hospital management company in southern California, has taken measures to implement public inpatient and outpatient regulatory reporting requirements in nine of its...
WASHINGTON – Selling tactics aimed at getting senior citizens to buy Medicare private plans came under attack last month in a Congressional hearing investigating how sales personnel were handlin...
St. Francis Hospital & Health Center was preparing to close its doors, until MSMC Investors LLC stepped forward with a proposition to acquire the hospital.SSM Health Care, which owns and...
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – London-based equity firm Apax Partners has agreed to buy the TriZetto Group, Inc. for $1.4 billion and plans to take it private.Under the terms of the agreement, Apa...
Physicians Healthcare Management Group, Inc., or Phyhealth, a developer of health maintenance organizations, has signed an agreement with Argus Dental, based in Tampa, Fla., to provide dental services...
Blues: new incentives ‘crucial’ to healthcareThe Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association says any plans for healthcare reform should include incentives to provide quality care....
COLUMBIA, SC – Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina has become the first major U.S. health insurer to offer its members access to Joint Commission International-accredited medical facilities...
HOUSTON – The processes of coding and charge capture are often complicated, time-consuming, paper-intensive tasks more suited to administrators than clinicians. To make those tasks easi...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is taking steps to make sure states are using the State Children's Health Insurance Program for the purpose of providing health insurance for low-incom...