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A report from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United charges that health insurers in California denied 26 percent of all claims submitted through the first nine months of 2010.
Health information is one of the hottest topics online today, with 80 percent of Americans using the Internet to research areas including diseases, procedures, doctors, hospitals, drugs, test results and insurance, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet Project and California HealthCare Foundation.
Tenet Healthcare has reached an agreement with Medicaid managed care program Keystone Mercy Health Plan that covers Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia.
The spotlight is on health data exchange in Indiana as the Central Indiana Beacon Community, led by the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE), hosts a meeting Monday to share the experiences of running the nation's largest and oldest health information exchange in the country. Indiana health IT leaders are calling the 'deep dive' meeting the first - and only - such meeting of the Beacon Communities.
MedeAnalytics, an Emeryville, Calif.-based provider of healthcare performance management solutions, has announced that Blue Shield of California is now live with the company's Medical Management Analytics solution.
In an effort to boost drug safety, a new online service has been launched that allows doctors to check the FDA-approved labeling for the most commonly prescribed drugs.
Analysts speaking at the Nashville Health Care Council this week said the nation should expect to see more hospital consolidation and more patients in the healthcare system in the future.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore a merger of the two health plans.
MedAssurant, which seeks to better use healthcare data to drive clinical outcomes and financial performance, has announced an innovation that's shown to increase analytical process runs by a factor of 2,000 over methodologies previously available.
The Mississippi Medicaid program has contracted Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) to help manage the government's EHR meaningful use incentive program.