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Electronic health record systems vendor Allscripts announced Monday that it has hired Richard J. Poulton as its new CFO. Poulton will step into the role on Oct. 29.
Pennsylvania is considering HIX options amid HHS's deadlines. New Jersey lawmakers have passed HIX legislation that has some insurers concerned, and the D.C. exchange wants to be the only venue for small biz and individual plan sales.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices decreased slightly from August to September 2012, falling 0.5 percent, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
According to a recent study, a majority of hospital and health system merger and acquisition transactions have not been financially successful.
A nonprofit in Ohio has been awarded a $129 million loan from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to run a Consumer Oriented and Operated Plan (CO-OP).
Flexing its muscle with the healthcare buying power of 1.4 million employees, Walmart last week announced it was contracting with six healthcare organizations nationwide to provide its health plan-covered employees with no out-of-pocket costs for specific heart, spine and transplant surgeries.
Flexing its muscle with the healthcare buying power of 1.4 million employees, Wal-Mart last week announced it was contracting with six healthcare organizations nationwide to provide its health plan covered employees with no out-of-pocket costs for specific heart, spine and transplant surgeries.
Last week, a panel of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) experts joined moderator Steve Monroe, managing editor and partner of research and publishing firm, Irving Levin Associates, for a question-and-answer session about buying, selling and valuing SNFs. We share some of the insider tips and perspectives offered during the 90-minute webcast.
Pennsylvania backs off co-payment plan; Texas investigates dental fraud; Alaska to study costs of Medicaid expansion in this week's Medicaid Digest.
The vice presidential debate contained much of the same fact twisting that has sculpted health reform rhetoric on the campaign trail -- the notion that Medicare and Medicaid are teetering on bankruptcy, the voucher plan, the phrase "death panel" and that pesky $716 billion figure.