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MedAssets, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based provider of cash management software, has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) of common sto...
One company's announcement that it is planning an initial public offering of stock is expected to throw a new wrinkle into a competitive group purchasing market. MedAssets...
WASHINGTON – The book appears complete on the federal government’s rules attempting to limit the possibility of financial conflict of interest by physicians who refer patients to their own...
Psychiatrist and patients rights advocate Deborah Peel says the Aug. 30 report on the Virginia Tech shooting turns a blind eye to the root cause of the tragedy. "Frankly, this pan...
The State Children's Health Insurance Program, which has provided health insurance for some 6.6 million children since 1997, expires one month from today. Two renewal proposals in Congress have stakeh...
The number of Americans without health insurance has risen by more than two million since 2005 and among them are 700,000 more uninsured children, the U.S. Census Bureau has announced....
CHICAGO – An Internal Revenue Service ruling in May that encouraged not-for-profit hospitals to provide healthcare information technology to medical staff physicians is paying off for Allscripts...
BALTIMORE – XLHealth, focused on improving care for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions, has completed a private placement of financing to raise $290 million. As part of...
WILMINGTON, OH – Even as a health system makes a big financial commitment to move to an electronic health records system, it still has to find a way to provide the “look and feel” of...
WASHINGTON – The nation’s hospitals will get an extra year to adapt to Medicare’s new severity-adjusted payment system, according to a final rule released last month by the Centers f...