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By Chip Means | 01:00 am | January 24, 2007
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...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 23, 2007
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....
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | January 23, 2007
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...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 22, 2007
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...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 19, 2007
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...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | January 18, 2007
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...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | January 16, 2007
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...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 16, 2007
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...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | January 10, 2007
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...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 09, 2007
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,...