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More companies boosting employee health incentives Companies are increasingly implementing health and disease management programs for their employees, a survey of 242 major U.S. e...
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’...
WASHINGTON – Interest is growing in a new concept of providing care that puts an emphasis on primary care and changes the dynamics for how care is financed. The Patient-Centered...
CHICAGO – With the distribution of national provider identifer numbers expected to occur this month, provider organizations are registering protests about the release of data. Last mo...
NEW YORK – Federal funding for a program to cover children who don’t have health insurance runs out in three months. Most states – even those experiencing funding shortfalls –...
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....
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...
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...