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By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 07, 2008
PLANO, TX – Not-for-profit hospitals that used to fear the mention of investor-owned chains knocking on their doors might have a different reaction to Legacy Hospital Partners Inc....
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 07, 2008
WASHINGTON –Several healthcare groups have banded together to ask Congress for an increase in federal funding of Medicaid program subsidies. The National Governors Association h...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 07, 2008
EL SEGUNDO, CA – A new report says hospitals have yet to fully implement existing technologies that can help them deploy more efficient care strategies. Hospitals are under r...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 06, 2008
Moving hospitals to a value-based payment system won't be a slam-dunk, according to testimony presented Thursday in a Senate Finance Committee roundtable meeting. According to a repor...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 06, 2008
Hospital executives are exacting some revenge on payers that they perceive as being difficult to work with. Responses from 113 hospital executives, representing about 500 hospit...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 05, 2008
Congressional budget committee leaders are under pressure to reject budget cuts in Medicare and Medicaid expenditures proposed by the Bush administration in its fiscal year 2009 budget plan and overtu...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 04, 2008
A large financial services company that's playing a role in electronic healthcare transactions is taking on a new name and hoping to become a one-stop destination for individuals navigating the nation...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 03, 2008
The American Medical Association continues to come out swinging against the latest step in the consolidation in the health insurance market. The Chicago-based profes...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 28, 2008
A large medical device and equipment trade organization, as well as a two large manufacturers of supplies, have voiced qualified support for a law that would disclose companies' payments to physicians...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 27, 2008
Health expenditures are still rising far faster than the rate of inflation, and that rate of increase is expected to remain steady for the next nine years, according to recent estimates by the federal...