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Bank of America will consolidate health and insurance benefits under one carrier beginning in 2009. The bank aims to simplify its medical plans to give the majority of plan participants new, company-f...

The Medicaid Dental Center, a privately owned chain of dental clinics in North Carolina formerly known as Smile Starters and Carolina Dental Center, will pay more than $10 million to resolve allegatio...

SHPS has decided that care comes first in healthcare. Company officials on Tuesday announced the launch of the Carewise Health line, a new brand identity for an integrated...

A variety of labor and advocacy organizations are asking Congress to enact reforms in the Medicare Advantage program, contending that the current payment system provides excessive tax subsidies to the...

As Nashville-based HCA and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare sell off their resource-draining hospitals in Florida, a new report looks at how the changes in hospital ownership will positively influence th...

When it comes to reaching the public with important health messages, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  has found it's best to go to the people - not to wait for them to come to you....

Nuance Communications, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Boston-based eScription, a medical transcription technology company. The deal, which is expected to close in Nuance's fiscal third quarte...

The first judicial challenge to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services directive regarding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has been filed. On...

One of the United States' largest pharmacy benefit managers is looking to expand its services overseas with an acquisition in Germany. Medco Health Solutions, Inc., a Fran...

Select Rite Aid stores in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas will have walk-in clinics this summer, thanks to a collaboration between the drugstore chain, MedStar Health and Consume...