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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...

SAN FRANCISCO – Three hospitals are expected to soon implement a new approach to delivering primary care, testing a concept projected to provide cost-effective options for insurers and reduced h...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...