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Inteck, a Denver-based information technology consulting firm, has announced that it has expanded its services with the introduction of a Receivables Management System and Vendor Mana...

Expenditures on healthcare in the United States, which currently outpace the economy and workers' earnings, will continue to rise rapidly over the next decade unless there are major healthcare policy...

Next May, providers will begin using the new NPI, a 10-digit number to be used in all healthcare billing procedures mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. NPIs are int...

Three major U.S. automakers have joined the growing list of companies that have pledged to promote President Bush's plan for value-driven healthcare, the Department of Health and Human Services announ...

At the Families USA Health Action conference last Thursday, 2008 presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) called for universal healthcare in the U.S. by no later than 2012....

VFA, Inc., a Boston-based provider of end-to-end solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management, has announced that Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has selected...

Twenty-seven states will look for new ways to improve the efficiency, economy and quality of their Medicaid programs as Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has awarded the first $103 m...

OAKLAND, CA – The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan is pushing for stricter and fairer rules to cover cancellations of individual health policies. Kaiser is in discussio...

WALTHAM, MA – Tenet Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest hospital chains, is paying $900 million to resolve charges that it had cheated the government by overbilling Medicare and paying...

WASHINGTON – The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched the Ambulatory Safety and Quality Grant Initiative, with a potential for granting as much as $25.8 million for healthcare...