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WASHINGTON – A large medical device and equipment trade organization, as well as two large manufacturers of supplies, have voiced qualified support for a law that would disclose companies’...
New York City will spend about $30 million to equip more than 1,000 primary care physician offices with electronic health records, enough to cover 1 million patients. According to...
EL SEGUNDO, CA – A new report says hospitals have yet to fully implement existing technologies that can help them deploy more efficient care strategies. Hospitals are under r...
With provider billing already incredibly complex, when you throw in consumer-directed healthcare and the cost shift to consumers, managing accounts receivable has become...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – In an effort to improve transparency of its prices, Spectrum Health last month began publicizing the average prices paid by major payers for 250 common procedures....
MPV signs contracts with 4 Western health groups Medical Present Value, Inc., of Austin, Texas has announced that four Western-based multi-specialty groups have signed contracts to impl...
PLANO, TX – Not-for-profit hospitals that used to fear the mention of investor-owned chains knocking on their doors might have a different reaction to Legacy Hospital Partners Inc....
CHICAGO – Allscripts is teaming up with a Hawaii-based physician management services organization on a new product designed to ease pay-for-performance reporting guidelines for physicians....
Healthcare expenditures outpace inflation, GDP Health expenditures are still rising faster than the rate of inflation, and that rate of increase is expected to remain steady for the n...
ALPHARETTA, GA – MedAssets Inc., which became a publicly owned company in mid-December through an initial public offering of stock, is making some noise. That’s quite a cont...