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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
ATLANTA – The variability of payer decisions on coverage is no joke for providers. They often base treatment decisions on precertification efforts, then find that payers deny s...
Contributed by Rick IngrahamThe healthcare industry has reached a watershed moment in which payers and providers are truly beginning to invest in the development of information technology in...