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UnitedHealth Group and PacifiCare have announced more than $6 million in grants to benefit healthcare consumers and improve the delivery of health care services in the Golden State. T...

Empire Blue BlueCross BlueShield is teaming up with Consumer Health Services to operate retail healthcare clinics, with the goal of providing health plan members with better access to non-emergency ca...

Citing a "solid track record in growth" over the past four years, a San Francisco-based private equity firm prepares to make its next purchase - AdvancedMD. Francisco Partners, which...

Margins are slim for community pharmacies, according to a report released this week by the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services. Organ...

Allergan, a multi-specialty healthcare firm, has just signed a $130 million contract that will provide the company with information technology outsourcing services as it continues to expand....

Elsevier, an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based publisher of medical information products and services, has added to its predictive analytics suite of services with the acquisition of MEDai, Inc., an Orland...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted last week for a 1.1 percent increase in Medicare payments for doctors in 2009. The vote comes as a precursor...

I’D LIKE TO SAY THAT, in this first issue of 2008, I’m writing with unbridled enthusiasm about healthcare in the New Year. I’d like to believe that there are a multitude of optimisti...

A recent survey of retail clinics in the nation set the number of such caregiving sites at nearly 1,000. The listing, released by the healthcare list division of Verisp...

The Foundation Radiology Group is one step closer to its goal of building a nationwide network of radiology physician groups after acquiring Roanoke, Va.-based Oryx Medical Services, company officials...