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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....

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are continuing to ratchet up the pressure on specialty hospitals, now requiring them to improve their ability to treat patients with eme...

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...

WASHINGTON – Congress has introduced a bipartisan proposal to expand and streamline the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Under the Healthy Kids Act of 2007, sp...

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 – A two-page memorandum issued last month by the Internal Revenue Service is expected to reduce the hesitancy of not-for-profit hospitals that have considered providing healthcare inf...

BOSTON – Massachusetts’ universal healthcare law celebrated its first anniversary in April. And depending on who you talk to, it’s either in need of refinement or an overhaul....

WASHINGTON – Even with a contingency plan in place to give the healthcare industry time to implement national provider identifiers, the government is keeping the pressure on to move the industry...

As healthcare providers look to increase the efficiency and quality of medical care, one of the worst shortages of nurses in recent times is affecting revenues, coordination of care, patient outcomes...

HHS announces plan to release NPI, related data The Department of Health and Human Services has outlined its plan for what provider information will be attached to the national prov...