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By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 13, 2009
CIGNA's Choice Fund account-based consumer-driven health plans reduced medical costs by 13 percent relative to HMO and PPO plans, according to a study released today by the insurer.The multi-...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | January 12, 2009
The University of Chicago Medical Center will undergo a major restructuring that will trim $100 million in expenses - equivalent to 7 percent of its annual budget - and include the elimination of top...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | January 12, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama once again turned his focus on healthcare and technology over the weekend as he addressed the nation on the topic of unemployment in his weekly radio address, promising to...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | January 12, 2009
Employment at U.S. hospitals rose 0.25 percent in December 2008 to a seasonally adjusted 4,711,300 people, according to a report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics last week.The repo...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | January 12, 2009
The Medical Group Management Association has launched an industry wide effort calling on health insurers, vendors and health care providers to adopt standardized, machine-readable patient ID cards by...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | January 12, 2009
Long-term care facilities that purchase through CHIPS Purchasing, a recently established group purchasing organization for small- to mid-sized long-term care chains, now have access to the full portfo...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | January 09, 2009
The owner and operator of two Miami medical clinics has pled guilty to defrauding the Medicare program for $5.3 million.According to Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 09, 2009
Families USA, the national organization for healthcare consumers, released a report Friday that shows temporary healthcare premiums for the recently unemployed consume some 84 percent of their unemplo...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | January 09, 2009
It's possible to provide health insurance for uninsured Americans and also save healthcare costs, asserts a report released Friday by the Commonwealth Fund. Technology would have to play a ke...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | January 09, 2009
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved the Missouri Department of Social Services' request to expand women's health services to uninsured women ages 18-55 with income up to 185 pe...