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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...
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....
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....
Enterprise Performance Systems, Inc. (EPSi), a St. Louis-based provider of financial decision support systems, has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Quantros...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...