Diana Manos

WITH THE U.S. facing a 2006 healthcare tab of $2.1 trillion and healthcare a staggering 16 percent of the gross domestic product, it’s not hard to see why potential “solutions” are s...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have announced plans for reporting physician performance to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS plans to make the public reports by combini...

Nearly one-third of Americans are intolerant of inaccuracy greater than 5 percent when it comes to physician performance ratings, a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change suggests....

Deloitte & Touche, commissioned by the National Governors Association, released a report last week on the current status of healthcare price transparency as seen through various stakeholder perspectiv...

The Leapfrog Group's Hospital Quality and Safety Survey, used to designate top hospitals, has been upgraded to include standards in areas such as transparency reporting and certain billing procedures....

Practice Fusion, Inc., a vendor of electronic medical records, announced last week that it will make use of Google's AdSense program to help sponsor free online EMRs for physicians....

The assumption that Medicare costs are being contained because one physician mainly manages a patient's care has been shattered by a study released Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The...

NEW ORLEANS – The Department of Health and Human Services will award an $800,000 federal contract aimed at promoting healthcare IT collaboration among state leaders. The contract...

Physicians in Washington state say they would like to support a new regional healthcare quality study, but they remain wary of the limited time and funds allotted to the program, according to W. Hugh...

At a House subcommittee hearing last week, Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), said it is time for a permanent fix for the Medicare fee-for-service physician payment system before healthcare for sen...