Fred Bazzoli

Alegent Health, a nine-hospital system with hospitals in and around Omaha, is one of the first systems in the nation to provide consumers with accurate estimates of the cost of their care, factoring i...

NOVI, MI – Consolidation among health plans took a step forward in the competitive Michigan market last month with the announcement of the sale of a small health plan to a larger, provider-based...

WASHINGTON – The ability of the federal government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies is shaping up as the first healthcare policy hot button of 2007. On Jan...

STAMFORD, CT – As the deadline to start using national provider identifiers approaches, essential information for implementing the identifiers still hasn’t been released by the government....

The concept of a regional health information organization is one that’s difficult to oppose. What healthcare organization wouldn’t want to have a data-sharing organization in place th...

NEW YORK – A spate of lawsuits questions the findings of a New York state commission that recommends the closing of nine hospitals and changes affecting 48 other facilities....

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA – A recent study by a technology research organization concludes that asset tracking systems have yet to prove they can provide a return on investment for hospitals....

Our family got a new car last summer. We really needed it, but it was more costly than we thought. So we’re figuring out ways to save money. If we just eliminate all those needless...

Hospitals across the country are outsourcing more specialized patient services, such as dialysis, diagnostic imaging and hospice care, according to the results of a study released Jan. 22....

The ability of the federal government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies is shaping up as the first healthcare policy hot button of 2007. On Friday, Janua...