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SXC Health Solutions, a Lisle, Ill.-based provider of pharmacy benefit management services, has acquired the assets of Zynchros, a Seattle-based developer of formulary management solutions for...
The University of Iowa Health Care has recovered more than $20 million in hospital payments from insurers by employing its own software and a new approach to revenue management.Beginning last...
Jim King, MD, chairman of the American Academy of Family Physicians' Board of Directors, is urging President-elect Barack Obama to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in federal programs that suppo...
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is extending Medicaid coverage for about 34,000 children in the Houston-Beaumont areas over concerns that Hurricane Ike may have disrupted the abil...
With a Dec. 31 deadline looming for physicians to qualify for bonuses under Medicare's 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, the Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative (PAeHI) is reminding physicians...
A report issued by the Congressional Budget Office comparing health care reform options found that a plan to allow Americans to buy into Medicare before turning 65 would lead to more people with healt...
Cleveland Clinic chief executive officer Toby Cosgrove, MD, has told employees that the health system has instituted a hiring and salary freeze.The freeze does not affect employees needed for direc...
South Florida's Broward Health system has received a gift of more than $4.5 million for the construction of a women's health pavilion at Broward General Medical Center.The Lillian S. Wells Foundati...
The University of Connecticut Health Center and Hartford Hospital are preparing to seek legislative approval in January for a $475 million, 250-bed hospital to replace UConn's John Dempsey Hospital in...
HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that from January 2008 to July 2008 self-insured medical enrollment grew by 1.6 million, or 2.2 percent, to more than...