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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – After more than a year of strategic implementation, Optima Health Plan went live with a new provider network contract management system in mid-December. With plans...

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ plan to increase payments to physicians who spend more time talking with their Medicare patients may be viewed in a different l...

Westfield, NJ – A business plan that began as a way to help her college-aged son get out of bed in time for classes might soon help Amy J. Yoffie tackle the ever-growing – and expensive &#...

San Mateo, CA – Sometimes progress can be measured in a single word or phrase. That’s the philosophy behind Astoria Software, a small (34-employee) company that offers on-dem...

The payment approach used by Medicare to reimburse freestanding ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) should be changed to match how the program pays for procedures in surgery centers attached to hospita...

Healthcare organizations looking to hire clinical coding professionals have reported "real problems in filling open slots with qualified candidates," a survey by the American Health Information Manage...

Study cites importance of Web investments A three-month study of 267 healthcare industry professionals has indicated that almost half feel that Web investments are continu...

Key Congressional staffers agree that lack of money will be the force that molds lawmaking in the coming year. At a December health legislation briefing hosted by the Alliance for Health R...

The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services is casting a wary eye at billing practices that appear to represent double billing for radiological services....

Congratulations! You have been named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." Of course, it's a shared honor. You won. But that guy over there, in the corner – he won, too. And the Fed...