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Tax credits for Americans buying their own insurance, leveraged federal funding to states with programs to cover the uninsured and a plea to save Medicare and Medicaid were the driving points of an am...
Hospitals across the country are outsourcing more specialized patient services, such as dialysis, diagnostic imaging and hospice care, according to the results of a study released Jan. 22....
A 78-year-old woman living in Michigan may pay $4,113 in annual out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs covered under that state's least expensive Medicare drug plan. A woman of the same age in Ohi...
Salt Lake City-based 3M Health Information Systems has added a module to its 3M Coding and Reimbursement System to enable medical necessity validation at the point of c...
A diverse coalition of advocacy groups, employers, payers, and healthcare associations has put forward what it hailed as an "unprecedented" and "historic" plan to provide health coverage to the nation...
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced Wednesday that 175 companies -up from 100 in December- have now pledged to abide by President Bush's transparency plan for advancing...
The ability of the federal government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies is shaping up as the first healthcare policy hot button of 2007. On Friday, Janua...
eClinicalWorks, a Westborough, Mass.-based provider of unified EMR/PM systems, has announced that St. Luke’s Health System, which serves Idaho, Oregon and Nevada, has chosen the...
Eastman Kodak Company has announced the sale of its healthcare group to Toronto-based Onex Healthcare Holdings Inc. in a deal initially valued at $2.35 billion. Pending returns on investments, the tot...
The CSC Group of Brecksville, Ohio has announced that MemorialCare Medical Center of Huntington Beach, Calif. will be installing the company's PAPERS EDI Capture, Payment Processing,...