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WASHINGTON – Responding to concerns that private fee-for-service plans for Medicare are not being accurately marketed, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a suspension...

WASHINGTON – The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recently urged Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to adopt and refine various methodologies for determining provider...

Charitable giving has taken a significant downturn for the nation’s charity hospitals, as individual donations of at least $1 million to not-for-profit facilities in the first three months of 20...

Providers and health plans are locked in a competitive struggle for the upper hand to gain market share and patients. Their focus is not on delivering value or reducing the cost of care – i...

MIAMI – A class action settlement involving most of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans and the umbrella Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is expected to help physicians’...

The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) announced last Friday the results of a study that reveals a potential shortage of primary care physicians. Accordi...

Reaction to the proposed purchase of Manor Care Inc. remained muted today after the nursing home chain announced on Monday a proposed leveraged buyout of the company....

Studies conducted by Blue Shield of California and Kaiser Permanente have shown that their respective home-based care coordination programs have delivered a clear return on investment....

Sentillion, Inc. of Andover, Mass. has announced that Texas Children's Hospital in Houston is adding the company's Provisioning Manager to its existing deployment of the company's sin...

SRA, a provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions, has acquired Constella Group, LLC, a privately-held provider of global health consulting services. Constel...