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Triad Hospitals Inc. has entered into a buyout deal with an estimated value of $6.4 billion. The acquisition involves affiliates of two private equity firms, the company announc...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Efforts to provide health coverage for uninsured children eligible for Medicaid are being complicated by a proof of citizenship provision in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, according to an annual s...
Children’s hospitals ask Congress to save SCHIP Last month, 35 regional coalitions led by children’s hospitals, Catholic hospitals and other healthcare organizations c...
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...