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The Wisconsin Health Information Organization is working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to release CMS' Medicare data and add the information to its WHIO Health Analytics Exchange, according to executive director Julie Bartels.

Two Kentucky-based companies, Humana and Norton Healthcare, are launching the region's first commercial Accountable Care Organization.

Congress on Monday agreed to a reprieve of scheduled 23 percent Medicare pay cuts to physicians that would have started December 1. The measure means reimbursement levels will go untouched until January 1.

A pilot program being conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs is testing whether using a private contractor to collect healthcare records from private physicians can speed the processing of veterans' disability compensation claims.

Pittsburgh-based Highmark will offer a childhood obesity prevention benefit to its members starting in 2011 in collaboration with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a program that is expected to help about half a million children.

A new study from the Office of the Inspector General has discovered that Medicaid may be paying for drugs it shouldn't.

The Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System will receive more than $1 million in dividends from its medical liability insurance provider for improving patient safety.

TeleTracking announced that Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC), a 530-bed hospital in Savannah, Ga., is managing assets more effectively and at a lower cost since deploying TeleTracking’s RadarFind sensor-network based real-time location system (RTLS).

A report from the International Federation of Health Plans on common medical services and procedures in 12 countries shows some cost as much as four times more in the United States than in other developed nations.

In yet another good news/bad news scenario, lawmakers once again postponed a 23 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements to doctors - but only for one month.