Bernie Monegain
A six-month government investigation has led to charges that Ingenix operates a defective and manipulated database that is used by most major health insurance companies to set reimbursement rates....
Empire Blue BlueCross BlueShield is teaming up with Consumer Health Services to operate retail healthcare clinics, with the goal of providing health plan members with better access to non-emergency ca...
FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Newt Gingrich and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) have added their voices to the call for electronic prescribing. Kerry is among the sponsors of bipartisan legislation...
THERE ARE MORE than 23,000 independent pharmacies, and 75,000 pharmacists in the United States. In 2006, after five years of stability, 1,152 pharmacies, about 5 percent of the nation’s ph...
Insurer UnitedHealthcare and athenahealth, which provides Web-based business services for physician practices, are working together to expand the two companies' real-time claim adjudication capa...
Blue Shield of California Foundation has granted $6 million to nonprofits statewide. The funding supports expanding access to care and coverage, boosts financing for the state's school health centers...
BOSTON – Provider-to-provider telehealth technologies could save healthcare as much as $4.28 billion a year, new research shows. In findings released last month, The Center for In...
Health plans need to do more to inform their members on a number of healthcare topics and do a better job alerting patients and doctors on needed cancer screenings, a new national survey concludes....
BOSTON - Provider-to-provider telehealth technologies could save healthcare as much as $4.28 billion year, new research shows. The Center for Information T...
Three months after launching Health Evolution Partners, a private equity firm focused on healthcare investments, David Brailer, MD, and his partners are ready to spend some money. Brailer detailed the...