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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
WASHINGTON – A rare admission by the federal government that there are legitimate concerns surrounding a prescription pricing approach is a first step to resolving a lawsuit by groups representi...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
PITTSBURGH – Healthcare organizations are facing a competitive market for staff, including executives, resulting in short-sighted hiring practices that often end up costing more money than expec...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
A LAWSUIT FILED in March against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks to stop the federal agency from implementing a regulation that would restrict how states fund Medicaid programs and...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
RESTON, VA – As much as the healthcare industry is trying to move to electronic data interchange, handling workers’ compensation bills is often like a trip down memory lane....
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
MARCH MARKED the five-year anniversary of the "shock and awe" beginning of our War in Iraq, and all over D.C., the country – and for that matter, the world – there was discussion of i...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
PSS World Medical has announced that it has sold a portion of its shares of athenahealth, Inc., a Watertown, Mass.-based provider of Internet-based IT and business management services to physician pra...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
TWO COMPANIES are launching an initiative to help state Medicaid programs save money by avoiding the manual recovery of pharmacy claims from commercial insurers. The proprietary program,...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
STATE MEDICAID DIRECTORS say regulatory changes proposed by the Bush administration for Medicaid policy will be much larger than predicted, and a new report blasts the administration for its approach...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
CHICAGO – In a deal that could affect more than 150,000 U.S. physicians and another 700 hospitals, Allscripts and Misys Healthcare have announced a merger....
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | March 27, 2008
FOREIGN NURSES have been denied American visas for more than a year even as the healthcare industry struggles to deal with a shortage, according to healthcare recruiters and hospital executives....