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Owens & Minor, of Richmond, Va., has signed a definitive agreement to sell is direct-to-consumer diabetes supply business to the Liberty Healthcare Group, Inc. for $63 million in cash.Pat...

 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) has launched its low-cost insurance plans, available to uninsured Floridians as part of Gov. Charles Crist's chosen healthcare insurers selected to...

A developer of electronic billing and payment solutions for the healthcare industry, among others, is adding a feature that allows patients and providers to establish payment plans.Internet P...

National health spending in 2007 was at its lowest rate of overall growth since 1998, according to a new report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS researchers said slo...

AARP CEO Bill Novelli identified healthcare IT as a key initiative in his organization's work with the 111th Congress on reducing healthcare cost and boosting quality."This is not the ti...

Grady Memorial Hospital is considering a proposal to increase medical costs to some uninsured patients and acknowledged that it could cut off some people from free care.According to reports i...

The state of New Jersey has awarded Unisys with a contract extension that continues the technology company's role as the state's Medicaid fiscal agent and Medicaid Management Information System provid...

RevenueXL, Inc., a Cupertino, Calif.-based healthcare revenue cycle management solutions, has launched a new Web site designed to help physicians save time and money in screening choices of electronic...

Executives from Passport Health Communications, Inc. claim that declining Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements are not the only significant challenges facing healthcare providers in 2009.Offi...

CAHQ says a new batch of healthcare organizations - including The American Academy of Family Physicians, MD On-Line and Gateway EDI - have committed to simplifying electronic administrative data throu...