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Tax credits for Americans buying their own insurance, leveraged federal funding to states with programs to cover the uninsured and a plea to save Medicare and Medicaid were the driving points of an am...
A 78-year-old woman living in Michigan may pay $4,113 in annual out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs covered under that state's least expensive Medicare drug plan. A woman of the same age in Ohi...
Eastman Kodak Company has announced the sale of its healthcare group to Toronto-based Onex Healthcare Holdings Inc. in a deal initially valued at $2.35 billion. Pending returns on investments, the tot...
Healthcare spending for the year 2005 slowed for the third consecutive year and is growing at a rate that's comparable with the rest of the economy, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services anno...
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...
Physicians may face a 10 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements in 2008, the Congressional Budget warns, thanks in part to Congress' December action to defer a scheduled 5 percent cut....
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...
A recent commonwealth fund study of Medicare Advantage plans is "based on flawed methodology," America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) president Karen Ignagni said in a Nov. 30 press release....
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...
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 light due to the deferral...