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A massive rebuilding project expected to take at least a dozen years and cost more than $1 billion on the Stanford University campus received a significant shot in the arm from a private contributor....
WellPoint, Inc., the nation's largest health benefits company, announced Tuesday that it will soon have a new system for consumers to rate their overall experience with their doctor and share it with...
Healthcare spending in 2006 totaled about $2.1 trillion in 2006, according to figures released Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. That works out to an average of $7,0...
Americans will have to shoulder greater and greater healthcare costs into the future, with incomes unlikely to keep pace with the increases, a new study shows. The study, rel...
A second phase of a competitive bidding program, to be nationally implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will enable the agency to prevent dishonest suppliers from participatin...
AcerMed, Inc., the once-prosperous ambulatory EMR/PM software vendor that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last September, has been sold. Ophthalmic Imaging Systems of Sacramento, Cali...
THERE ARE MORE than 23,000 independent pharmacies, and 75,000 pharmacists in the United States. In 2006, after five years of stability, 1,152 pharmacies, about 5 percent of the nation’s ph...
CHICAGO – Healthcare organizations are under the gun to increase efficiency and optimize investments in radiological systems, as cuts implemented this year in Medicare reimbursement for out...
WASHINGTON – Congress used special methods late in December to approve a bill that would defer a 10.1 percent Medicare payment cut for physicians that was scheduled to take effect January 1....
Nextgen healthcare launches practice solutions NextGen Healthcare has launched NextGen Practice Solutions, a business division directed toward providing physician practices with revenue c...