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No amount of incentive will entice physicians to participate in a quality data submission program if they are hesitant about pay for performance (P4P), according to Chris Weiss, president and CEO of H...
Consolidation among health plans took a step forward in the competitive Michigan market with the announcement last week of the sale of a smaller health plan to a larger provider-based health plan....
If 2006 was the year consumer directed health plans began to pick up steam, 2007 may be the year that all-in-one "smart" cards, designed to automate the payment process, grab the public spotlight....
December proved a cool month for some publicly traded healthcare providers. Analysts were generally bearish on the prospects of companies like Triad Hospitals and Tenet Health, thanks to declining mar...
Three hospitals are expected to implement a new approach to delivering primary care in the first quarter of 2007, testing a concept that's projected to provide cost-effective options for insurers and...
Axentis, a Cleveland-based provider of governance, risk and compliance management solutions, has been selected by Houston-based EGL, Inc., a global transportation, supply chain manage...
The federal government and other healthcare stakeholders are increasingly interested in what is called "patient-centered care" as a measure of quality of care. The two go hand-in-hand, industry and go...
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced today that more than 100 companies have voluntarily signed up to participate in the Administration's plan to advance healthc...
The federal government wants to find the incentive that will convince doctors to participate in its pay-for-performance programs. According to Thomas B. Valuck, MD,...
MphasiS Healthcare Solutions, a health benefit management and business process outsourcing services vendor, has announced the release of CDHpac, a tool for health benefits management...