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INDIANAPOLIS – WellPoint’s pharmacy benefit manager is offering financial incentive to its members in seven additional states for the latest generic-drug addition to its GenericSelect prog...
PA. PROVIDER BUYS HOUSTON HEALTH SYSTEM FOR $49M Select Medical Corp of Pennsylvania, a leading provider of specialty healthcare, has purchased Nexus Health Systems of Houston, a pr...
WASHINGTON – Criticized for allowing Medicare providers to abuse the tax system to the tune of more than $1.3 billion, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is answering back....
About all you can conclude from all the discussion and attention being paid to healthcare reform is that it is a hot topic, one that politicians believe will resonate with the public....
LONG BEACH, CA – Telemedicine, long believed to have the potential for facilitating healthcare treatment, may be about to play a significant role in ambulatory settings. According to...
Contributed by Mark Sedlmeier Healthcare equipment financing is surging forward to keep pace with unprecedented spending, with institutions designating more capital for equipment than ev...
More than half of the California physicians involved in a year-old pay-for-performance consortium have reported using new healthcare information technology to schedule patient visits and appointment r...
PHILADELPHIA – In expanding its use of a document management system to hold and share patient information, the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network also is seeing a payoff in efficiency and r...
WASHINGTON – Providers and payers making a good-faith effort to implement the national provider identifier will have as much as 12 more months to start using the identifiers on claim forms....
WASHINGTON – The nation’s not-for-profit hospitals are likely to face more scrutiny into whether the services they provide merit their tax-exempt status. The Government Accou...