Chelsey Ledue
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced the final five contractors that will process and pay Medicare claims for healthcare services under the Medicare fee-for-service program....
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Nevada has introduced SmartSense, a choice-driven health insurance plan targeted to "early" retirees, the self-employed, independent contractors, student...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) has launched its low-cost insurance plans, available to uninsured Floridians as part of Gov. Charles Crist's chosen healthcare insurers selected to...
Executives from Passport Health Communications, Inc. claim that declining Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements are not the only significant challenges facing healthcare providers in 2009.Offi...
The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company is launching a free prescription program covering 36 generic antibiotics in nine basic categories. The program will run from Jan. 2 through March 21, 2009, at a...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has revoked the billing privileges of 1,139 suppliers of durable medical equipment prosthetics, orthotics and supplies in south Florida and southern Ca...
Jim King, MD, chairman of the American Academy of Family Physicians' Board of Directors, is urging President-elect Barack Obama to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in federal programs that suppo...
A report issued by the Congressional Budget Office comparing health care reform options found that a plan to allow Americans to buy into Medicare before turning 65 would lead to more people with healt...
HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that from January 2008 to July 2008 self-insured medical enrollment grew by 1.6 million, or 2.2 percent, to more than...
The Commonwealth Fund has launched a new Web site that allows healthcare providers to compare 4,500 hospitals nationwide, track performance over time against numerous benchmarks and download tools...