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IF YOU LISTEN LONG ENOUGH, you’re bound to hear stories of consumers totally confounded by how things work in healthcare. This is one of those stories. It’s based on a colum...
ENGLEWOOD, CO – Physician practices are responding to the uncertain reimbursement environment and the failure of Medicare physician payments to keep pace with the cost of delivering care, accord...
ATLANTA – The Eclipsys Corporation has added some strength to the ‘Outcomes’ portion of its ‘The Outcomes Company’ moniker with the purchase of Enterprise Performance Sys...
Letter, ad campaign seek to reverse planned cuts Congressional budget committee leaders are under pressure to reject budget cuts in Medicare and Medicaid expenditures proposed by the B...
ARMONK, NY – The only way that hospitals and other healthcare providers are going to rein in costs is if they learn from past practices and fine-tune the processes. That’...
Push for e-prescribing will cut phone bills, groups say Five physician organizations have launched an e-prescribing push called “Get Connected” that aims at reducing the $8...
GREENVILLE, SC – Emergency departments – gotta have ‘em, and gotta lose big money in the process. While hospitals are obligated to provide emergency care services, most...
WASHINGTON – California health plans paid $65 million in 2007 to California physician groups participating in their pay-for-performance programs, the Integrated Healthcare Association has report...
According to a new survey, employers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio believe that worksite wellness programs are better than high-deductible health plans for managing healthcare costs....
The MediNotes Corporation, a provider of certified electronic health record (EHR) systems, and Akamai Practice Management, a practice management and reimbursement service provider for independent phys...