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A group of Democrats and various supporters are leading the push for a law that would allow government officials to negotiate for lower Medicare drug prices. According to Sen...
LOUISVILLE, KY – Humana of Arizona has received only limited data since the June implementation of its INSPIRIS-based care management program for the frail elderly, but the program is show...
Information on how doctors will be measured for quality performance under the voluntary 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) has been announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid S...
In a move expected to reduce physicians' administrative workloads, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colo.) has signed into a law a bill to make the language in payer-provider contracts more transparent....
Providers and payers making a good-faith effort to meet May 23 deadline for national provider identifier compliance will have as much as 12 more months to start using the identifiers on claim forms, t...
Healthaxis, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based provider of integrated business process solutions and services, including claims and benefit administration applications, Web-enabled software...
President Bush is not the only one pressing for more information to be available to healthcare consumers. According to Adam Bosworth, vice president of Google, the private in...
Consumers see the logic of pairing flexible savings accounts with prepaid cards that enable healthcare providers to gain payment from consumers' FSA balances right after services are rendered....
In the second year of its Survey of Regional Health Information Organization Finance, the Healthcare IT Transition Group plans to look at the challenges of funding RHIOs that are in various stages of...
CHICAGO – The first group of physicians participating in the Illinois E-Rx Collaborative and DrFirst’s e-prescribing initiative has begun writing prescriptions electronically....