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Workplace options unveils increased risk HRA Workplace Options, a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of work-life employee benefits, is unveiling a health risk assessment (HRA) to hel...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued new rules last week to make it easier for states to approve applicants to the Medicaid program. The rules, issued July 2,...
MINNEAPOLIS – It never hurts to have good advice. That’s the thinking that officials at Ingenix, a Minneapolis-based health information technology firm, employed i...
ATLANTA – A telehealth system is improving care for a facility’s heart failure patients while saving money for a specialty treatment center at Piedmont Hospital. Atlanta...
DALLAS – Physicians in small- to medium-sized practices are hesitant to embrace information technology, often because they think new solutions are too expensive and/or complicated to install...
The federal government announced Friday a final rule that limits how much it will pay state Medicaid agencies for prescription drugs. The regulation, which aims to curb inflated drug pri...
MCLEAN, VA – Northrop Grumman will be developing a Web-based patient information application that will give Medicare providers comprehensive assessments of patients discharged from post-ac...
Contributed by John R. Boettiger and Jennifer Harris Smith Valuation professionals are frequently retained to help clients evaluate whether physician compensation agreements adhere to st...
CARMICHAEL, CA – A study of primary care physicians practicing complementary and alternative medicine has shown greater reduction of clinical utilization and cost than primary care physicians us...
SAN DIEGO – Hospitals probably will be rushing to get ready for the significant changes expected to be included in the government’s final rule for Medicare’s inpatient prospec...