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Trustees for the nation’s Medicare program this week issued a bleak report on the long-term financial health of the federal program. Because it is...

A real-time survey taken yesterday at a panel session of the  Fourth Annual World Health Care Congress in the District of Columbia revealed that 69 percent of attendees feel the federal governmen...

More than nine million Cigna HealthCare plan members will be able to manage their healthcare on their personal computers when the national carrier releases its latest online healthcare tool...

Atlanta-based MedAssets, Inc. has announced an agreement to acquire XactiMed, a provider of Web-based revenue cycle technologies and services to the healthcare indust...

Reps. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) and Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) have introduced a bipartisan bill designed to help physicians afford the high cost of adopting healthcare information technology....

America's Health Insurance Plans has released a national strategy to advance improvement in U.S. healthcare quality and safety. The strategy, revealed in a 16-pa...

HealthSouth Corp. continued its efforts to shed extraneous lines Thursday, announcing that it had entered a definitive agreement to sell its diagnostic division. The sale, to Th...

Responding to industry-wide disdain for the payment methods used in determining provider reimbursements, a new report pushes an alternative model based on risk-adjusted cost assessment and quality out...

The U.S. Senate has voted against a bill proposing to allow the federal government to negotiate for lower Medicare drug prices. The vote comes as a disappoi...

ALEXANDRIA, VA – Later this month, ChainDrugStore.net will provide pharmacy analytics to manufacturing partners, managed care organizations and pharmacy members. Manufacturin...