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At a House subcommittee hearing last week, Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), said it is time for a permanent fix for the Medicare fee-for-service physician payment system before healthcare for sen...
An initiative of the Medical Banking Project is aiming to develop a common medical banking platform in the next year to support a growing range of healthcare financial transactions....
The benefits and problems employers and insurers face in the growing industry of medical tourism will be addressed at the International Medical Tourism Conference (TIMTC), to be held in Las Vegas from...
CHATTANOOGA, TN – By the end of March, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee expects to deploy a suite of Web-based applications to five pilot providers. Implementation o...
RECENT LEGISLATIVE activity on healthcare issues in Washington has focused heavily on oversight and disagreement over spending. It’s hard to say which came first....
Contributed by Jamie Cleverley Several months ago, I was in San Diego for a presentation on hospital pricing. One of the primary discussions involved California’s higher relativ...
Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania is licensing a service that will securely send members' health and healthcare finance information to electronic devices, including PDAs and cell phones....
A 2006 REPORT that indicates there are more emergencies than necessary in the nation’s emergency departments has hospitals looking to automation to clean up the process – and the bottom li...
DENISON, TX – Software applications often don’t achieve predicted results and sometimes frustrate users. That wasn’t the case at Texoma Medical Center. Its three...
Fair Isaac Corp. introduces new SCDM solution The Fair Isaac Corporation of Minneapolis has unveiled a new State Compliance Decision Manager solution, designed to help pharmaceuti...