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U.S. healthcare payers to limit IT investments in 2008 Although top U.S. healthcare payers reported pricing transparency initiatives in 2007, they face challenges in 2008 that will limit...
PHILADELPHIA – Medical groups participating in Medicare’s quality reporting program are finding that it weighs them down with extra costs and consumes their time, and some say the pote...
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issuing a final rule calling for a 10.1 percent reduction in payment rates. The new rule was met with disdain from physic...
CHICAGO – Despite broad-based efforts to encourage physicians to use health information technology and electronic prescribing, IT’s penetration among physicians remains woeful. Costs a...
CINCINNATI – The Department of Health and Human Services will launch a demonstration project to reward physicians who adopt electronic health records, HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt said last mon...
BOSTON – Provider-to-provider telehealth technologies could save healthcare as much as $4.28 billion a year, new research shows. In findings released last month, The Center for In...
Claim-Remedi Services, Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Los Angeles-based Cash Technologies, Inc., has entered into a two-year agreement with Health Payment Systems, Inc. to market Claim-Remed...
WASHINGTON - As Congress takes its Thanksgiving recess, a massive spending package that would earmark billions of dollars for healthcare hangs in limbo. Compromise couldn't...
FRAMINGHAM, MA - Although top U.S. healthcare payers reported pricing transparency initiatives in 2007, they face challenges in 2008 that will limit information technology investments in this area....
WASHINGTON - Despite Congress' efforts to compromise on legislation to provide health insurance for 10 million poor children, President Bush's stance on the State Children's Health Insurance Program h...