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By Chip Means | 01:00 am | September 18, 2007
Legislators from the House and Senate last night worked towards passing a bill that would renew and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program by $35 billion over five years. The bill draws...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | September 18, 2007
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) on Monday gave the details of her healthcare reform agenda, which focuses on universal insurance and consumer choice....
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | September 18, 2007
A non-clinical organization providing accreditation to medical tourism firms has been granted nonprofit status, making it the first of its kind in the growing $20 billion medical tourism industry....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | September 17, 2007
Enterprise Performance Systems, Inc. (EPSi), a St. Louis-based provider of financial decision support systems, has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Quantros...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | September 14, 2007
A $1,500,000 grant has been awarded to the National League for Nursing and three institutions of higher education to fund a five-year Health Information Technologies Scholars (HITS) Project to integra...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | September 13, 2007
For healthcare providers burdened with IT expenses and looking for an economical single sign-on (SSO) solution, Sentillion has an answer: A shot of ExpreSSO. "We've created a singl...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | September 13, 2007
The U.S.-based division of one of the world's largest drug firms this week paid more than $190 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. Sanofi-aventis U...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | September 13, 2007
Humana Inc. has launched a new health insurance package designed to provide predictable healthcare expenses. The "No Worry" plans offer healthcare expenses over a three-year period that...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 13, 2007
Eighty-seven percent of U.S. hospitals do not comply with recommended steps for preventing infections, according to a new study. A survey of 1,256 hospitals conducted by The Lea...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | September 12, 2007
Medicare officials say they lack the authority to recoup overpayments to providers under the Medicare Advantage program. The Government Accountability Office disagrees. In a re...