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Voluntary employee benefit associations, or VEBAs, have been around since the late 1920s, but the size of General Motors' contribution to the healthcare trusts for the United Auto Workers, or UAW, is...
Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, Inc. is looking to better connect its customers with health plans, and believes ConnectYourCare, LLC will do the trick. St. Louis-based Ex...
They're calling it a "friendly takeover," but SAP's announcement that it will buy rival IT firm Business Objects has some analysts scratching their heads. The two major players...
Hospitals and healthcare organizations assuming they still have until May 23 to transition to using the National Provider Identifier (NPI) on Medicare claims now have less time than they thought....
Ingenix, a healthcare IT company based in Eden Prairie, Minn. , yesterday released its fourth annual report on the "Top 200 Coding Hospitals in the U.S. " The report ranks hospitals by the completenes...
Seven companies that market private fee-for-service plans for Medicare have received permission from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to resume marketing the plans to beneficiaries....
The QuadraMed Corp. of Reston, Va. has announced that Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas has gone live enterprise-wide with QuadraMed's Revenue Cycle and Identity Management...
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services enters a new fiscal year, it's beginning to take a fresh look at the future implementation of ICD-10 codes. One step in that process...
The timing couldn't be better. One day after U.S. Preventive Medicine announced its acquisition of Specialty Disease Management Services, Inc., the Milken Institute released...
President Bush today has delivered on his promise to veto Senate's $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program - an expansion he feels is too close to universal, single-paye...