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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | April 07, 2008
The Tenet Healthcare Corp. has signed a multi-year agreement with Viant Holdings, Inc., a Naperville, Ill.-based company that operates managed care networks. The agreem...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | April 07, 2008
A new Web-based pricing software tool aims to help healthcare providers to proactively address price defensibility and transparency by comparing across market benchmarks. Atlanta-...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | April 07, 2008
CIGNA, based in Philadelphia, has announced the acquisition of Great-West Healthcare, the Denver-based healthcare division of the Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company, for $1.5 bi...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | April 07, 2008
The Joint Commission launched a national campaign Friday to promote a patient's ability to understand information about healthcare. Navigating the healthcare system can be d...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | April 07, 2008
The value of hospitals to the communities they serve extends far beyond healthcare and plays an important role in supporting the economy, a new report says. The TrendWatch...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | April 04, 2008
According to a report by the Grubb & Ellis Company, a real estate services and investment firm, over the next 10 years the increasing demand for medical services by aging baby boomers will fuel the de...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | April 04, 2008
Miami resident Rita Campos Ramirez, the owner of a Medicare billing service, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in the largest known individual case of Medicare fraud in the history...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | April 03, 2008
A study released in late March by the Government Accountability Office indicates nearly 7 million, or 80 percent, of college students have insurance through private or public health plans.  ...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | April 03, 2008
Despite the outcome of the 2008 presidential election – whether it be Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John McCain – experts say healthcare is destined for a major change next year....
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | April 02, 2008
Many Medicare beneficiaries will be able to receive care in the comfort of their homes rather than an institutional setting, thanks to a proposed rule recently published by the Centers for Medicare an...