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By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | January 08, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has notified more than 3,000 of the nation's hospitals that they will receive the full payment update for calendar year 2009 as part of the new Hospita...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | January 08, 2009
Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle pledged Thursday that he would apply the lessons of the past to work toward healthcare reform. "When healthcare reform collapsed in 1994, I rememb...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 08, 2009
In a major speech Thursday, likened to those given on the campaign trail, President-elect Barack Obama outlined his plans for an economic recovery package he hopes to begin moving through Congress as...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | January 08, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced the final five contractors that will process and pay Medicare claims for healthcare services under the Medicare fee-for-service program....
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | January 07, 2009
According to a December 2008 survey conducted by the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, the state's hospitals are being hurt by the national recession, and patients are feeling t...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | January 07, 2009
The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a plan Wednesday that includes healthcare information technology as a critical piece in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The goa...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 07, 2009
Benefitfocus has landed a contract with one of the largest health insurers on the Atlantic coast.The Charleston, S.C.-based healthcare benefits software provider announced Tuesday a deal with...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 07, 2009
The federal government is inching closer to value-based healthcare, a proposition that has been heavily endorsed by the Bush Administration and promoted by the incoming Obama Administration.T...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | January 07, 2009
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Nevada has introduced SmartSense, a choice-driven health insurance plan targeted to "early" retirees, the self-employed, independent contractors, student...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | January 07, 2009
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has called on Congress to invest $30 billion on broadband, the smart electronic grid and healthcare information technology as a way to create as ma...