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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...
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...
OAKLAND, CA – Kaiser Permanente has been selling its health savings accounts in California since August, but the product rollout only became effective on January 1. During th...
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has launched another piece of the Bush administration’s value-driven healthcare plan to expand transparency in cost and quality...
A friend and I were discussing a plan to overhaul Maine’s school system, reducing the number of districts from more than 400 to 26. Even though we’re both skeptical of the promised $29...
The latest results of Healthcare Finance News’ NewsMonitor poll show that nearly twice as many respondents predict 2007 will produce a better bottom line than 2006. In January, we ask...
DALLAS – The old adage “an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure” is hitting the front page – or, at least, a full-page spread in a recent issue of The Wall Street...
Contributed by David Fein, CEO of ValuSource, a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based provider of business valuation and medical practice benchmarking technology. Most people know that benchmarking...
175 companies commit to Bush transparency plan Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced in January that 175 companies – up from 100 in December – ha...
LOS ANGELES – A six-year-old healthcare IT company that has focused on custom-based systems software applications is turning its attention to subscription modules – and tackling two of hea...