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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...
The Authentidate Holding Corp. of Berkeley Heights, N.J., a vendor of secure enterprise workflow management applications, has announced that American HomePatient, Inc., one of the nat...
Physicians are not as likely as once thought to leave their practices due to spikes in malpractice premiums, according to a new Harvard study that counted procedures rather than polled physicians....
Changes in Medicare contained in a massive proposed federal rule will result in nearly $25 billion in reductions in hospital payments over five years, a national advocacy group is charging....
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are continuing to ratchet up the pressure on specialty hospitals, requiring them to improve their ability to treat patients with emergen...
WASHINGTON - If Medicare is a good thing, then why not expand it? So say Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Rep. John Dingell (D-...
Congress’ last-minute deferral of a 5 percent cut to Medicare reimbursements last year means physicians may face up to a 10 percent cut in 2008, the Congressional Budget Office has warned....