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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...