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groups receive grant to promote patient safety The Health Research and Educational Trust, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices and the Medical Group Management Associ...

WASHINGTON– President Bush’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2008 calls for $70 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over five years. The $2.9 trilli...

Three Congressmen are re-opening questions regarding physician-owned specialty hospitals after a patient died in Texas last month after a procedure in one such facility....

MINNEAPOLIS – Insurers offering long-term care insurance are becoming more conservative in setting up reserves for those policies, perhaps anticipating that more policyholders will eventually us...

WASHINGTON – As President Bush’s healthcare plan, announced in his 2007 State of the Union Address, sinks in, industry stakeholders are debating the implications of tax credits, taxable he...

Navicure, a provider of automated, Web-based revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions for physician practices, has announced a new contract with the Methodist Medical Group of Peoria,...

LAKESIDE, MI - Seeking efficiency, cost-effectiveness and improved communication with patients, physicians in a Michigan-based health system have been testing a Web portal for virtual office visits. &...

WASHINGTON – Hospitals are slowly showing interest in implementing electronic health records among physicians. In the five months since new provisions enabling technology don...

OMAHA, NE – Alegent Health, a nine-hospital system in and around Omaha, Neb., is one of the first in the nation to provide consumers with accurate estimates of the cost of their care, factoring...

WASHINGTON - Twenty-seven states will look for new ways to improve the efficiency, economy and quality of their Medicaid programs with help from $103 million in “transformation grants” awa...