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By Chip Means | 01:00 am | July 19, 2007
The bipartisan Senate Finance Committee overwhelmingly passed a proposal to renew and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Thursday. The committee's 17-...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | July 18, 2007
Everyone involved in discussions about healthcare reform has to stop talking about who pays, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett told the audience at a chronic care summit on Tuesday. "We all pay in the long...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | July 17, 2007
Maine physicians stand to lose about $27 million in Medicare reimbursements by 2016 - a relatively low figure compared to the losses pending in other states. New York, for instance, could lose $489 mi...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | July 16, 2007
The Sullivan Group, a provider of risk management solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced an alliance with global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings of New York to pr...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | July 16, 2007
Slow adoption and anticipated high costs of development have prompted American Express to drop out of the healthcare payment card business. The giant New York-based financial...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | July 16, 2007
Three days after the Senate Finance Committee announced a proposal for renewing the State Children's Health Insurance Program, lawmakers unveiled a $35 billion bipartisan plan to secure the coverage o...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | July 16, 2007
Both the public and private sector took initial steps last week to test the concept that keeping employees healthy will save money on healthcare. In Washington, two senators hav...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | July 16, 2007
FRANKLIN, TN – The Medical Banking Project is taking on its first test case, aiming to show how the nation’s banks can play a role in solving some of the most vexing issues in healthcare d...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 13, 2007
Experts from both sides of the aisle predict that healthcare, though important to most Americans, may not play a major role in the upcoming presidential election. At a July 10 bri...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | July 12, 2007
A former IT manager for America's Health Insurance Plans has pled guilty to defrauding the not-for-profit industry organization of nearly $1 million. Dribjot S. Dua entered a guilty plea...