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STERLING, IL – Hospitals leave too much money on the table in their dealings with payers, and need to get better at collecting what they’re owed.Kenny Koerner, director of patient...

What are some healthcare reforms we might see in the early days of the Obama administration? One near-term effort will be an attempt to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance P...

MINUTES AFTER the election, Congress was already astir with the possibilities of healthcare reform. As well they should be. The voters made it perfectly clear that healthcare is an issue they don't wa...

WASHINGTON – Now that Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States and the Democrats have strengthened their control of Congress, what can hospitals expect from the federal gover...

King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Alpharma, Inc. have announced a merger agreement under which King will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock of Alpharma for $37 per share in cas...

Many healthcare leaders have a positive eye toward President-elect Barack Obama's nomination of former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) to be the next Department of Health and Human Services Secretary....

The Microsoft Corporation has announced that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont has saved nearly $500,000 by using Microsoft’s partner compensation management system, which overhauled incenti...

THERE HAVE BEEN many battles on the community care front in 2008. Some are still unsettled, but for now things have slowed down.Just before the turn of the year, the Medicare, Medicaid and SC...

FOR VENDORS in the healthcare finance sector, 2008 was perhaps best defined by a blockbuster merger that was announced in March and nearly derailed by financial concerns in September before coming to...

As a result of a bad U.S. economy, fewer Americans are seeking hospital care and more need help paying for care, according to new report from the American Hospital Association.The report note...