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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...
Bush makes progress on healthcare IT plan Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has announced that more than 100 companies will participate in the Ad...
WASHINGTON – A recent report by the Urban Institute pokes holes in the belief that many uninsured Americans are in the middle class. The report, funded by the Robert Wo...
Little is known about how the federal government will operate an incentive program aimed at culling quality data from physician practices. While it's not clear what the final compromise...
The Catholic Hospital Association isn't a Johnny-come-lately to reporting community benefits. The not-for-profit organization first did work on the concept in the 1980s, publishing it...
As a global purchaser of healthcare for its employees, IBM is taking an active role in healthcare transformation in ways that not only promote reform, but also bring benefits and lower costs to IBM em...
Meeting to show progress on NHIN initiative The work of four consortia will be on display at the third NHIN Forum, scheduled for Jan. 25 and 26, sponsored by the Department of H...
A Colorado man whose name, social security number and address were stolen was billed $44,000 by a hospital for a surgical procedure he never had. Two years later, he's still working to clear his name...
We are on a first-name basis with someone in our community named Tina.Let's call her poor Tina. She works in an oral surgeon's office in our community. She handles insurance, contentious clai...
The Medical Banking Project is taking on its first test case, aiming to begin to show how the nation's banks can play a role in solving some of the most vexing issues in healthcare data exchanges....