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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have announced plans for reporting physician performance to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS plans to make the public reports by combini...
Congress urged to reject Medicare, Medicaid cuts Some 223 representatives signed a letter in March asking the House Budget Committee to reject more than $100 billion in cuts to hosp...
Nearly one-third of Americans are intolerant of inaccuracy greater than 5 percent when it comes to physician performance ratings, a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change suggests....
NEW ORLEANS – Mapping out prospective savings in specific service lines has helped Salem (Ore.) Hospital executives make the case for a significant deployment of information technology....
Upside Software, Inc. of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a vendor of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions, has announced that the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associat...
WHEN PEOPLE THINK about what medical care used to be, many have idealized memories of close doctor-patient relationships forged over many years. They remember a doctor who knew the patient’s med...
A recent study indicates that employers can save money on healthcare by paying incentives to their employees who maintain healthy lifestyles, and advocates of consumer-directed health plans say the st...
Deloitte & Touche, commissioned by the National Governors Association, released a report last week on the current status of healthcare price transparency as seen through various stakeholder perspectiv...
A new bidder apparently has won the war for Triad Hospitals Inc., announcing a bid that totals nearly $7 billion. Community Health Systems Inc., a Franklin, Tenn-bas...
The Leapfrog Group's Hospital Quality and Safety Survey, used to designate top hospitals, has been upgraded to include standards in areas such as transparency reporting and certain billing procedures....