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Nearly every state has a Medicaid estate recovery program to recoup some of the costs of deceased patients’ long-term care. However, most recipients and their families don’t know such...
Walgreens a competitor with Take Care purchase The Walgreens Co., a Deerfield, Ill.-based company that operates 5,700 pharmacies nationwide, last month purchased Take Care Health Sy...
WINTER PARK, FL – Physician billing often isn’t a concern for hospital systems – unless, of course, they own the physician practices. With that in mind, Adventist Healt...
WASHINGTON – The AARP is expanding its relationship with UnitedHealthcare and creating a partnership with Aetna to offer AARP-branded HMO products to Medicare recipients. While som...
The Connecticut State Medical Society has struck a deal with a software provider that is expected to bring price breaks on the vendor's products for as many as 7,000 physicians....
Contributed by Robert Tennant It seemed straightforward and simple: transition all providers from the current cumbersome system of multiple proprietary identification numbers to a singl...
I start out this editorial with a plea for advice – I’m on a quest to figure how to get my children to do chores. Mind you, this has been an ongoing project for many years. M...
WASHINGTON – The government should do a better job of providing oversight of state Medicaid finances, according to a March report issued by the General Accountability Office. The 54-p...
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham, Pa. has announced that it has released its data capture tools to help physician practices prepare for federal pay-for-performance (P...
State efforts to cover the uninsured could be pivotal in promoting federal action to insure the more than 46 million Americans without coverage, according to experts. A...