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By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | November 12, 2008
MADISON, WI – With a Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan, or HIRSP, in place since 2006 to manage the health of its high-risk population, Wisconsin is now targeting diabetic residents.HI...
By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | November 12, 2008
As the U.S. population ages and chronic diseases across all age groups continue to rise dramatically, so does the demand for case management professionals.With registered nurses comprising ap...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | November 12, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has revised compensation requirements for sales agents and brokers who sell Medicare Advantage and prescription drug benefit plan options.&quo...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | November 11, 2008
The use of diagnostic imaging tests is rising rapidly and contributing to the increasing cost of healthcare, concludes a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | November 11, 2008
The campaign is done, and the pressure to reform healthcare has begun, with an emphasis on information technology and on health insurance for children.A group of organizations that includes t...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 11, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama's plan to extend healthcare to uninsured Americans will be beneficial to hospitals, medical centers and hospital equipment makers, according to Moody's Investors Service....
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 11, 2008
American Medical Association members discussed how to enact permanent Medicare physician payment reform at the organization's semi-annual policy-making meeting Monday."Seniors and physic...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | November 10, 2008
Medicare and Medicaid payments to U.S. hospitals in 2007 fell $31.9 billion short of the cost of care provided to hospital patients insured by those programs, according to the latest American Hospital...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | November 10, 2008
Infotech Global, Inc., a Piscataway, N.J.-based bio-informatics technology firm whose ORBIT portfolio includes payer, member and provider portals, wellness management, electronic data capture a...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | November 10, 2008
The current economy is projected to have a negative impact on imaging sales.This according to Millennium Research Group's "US Markets for Diagnostic Imaging Systems 2009" report and it...