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Experts disagree over the likelihood of success to be derived from the healthcare reform plans made by presidential candidates Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).With h...

In a sign that Royal Philips Electronics may be refining its healthcare division, Nuance Communications has announced that it has acquired the Dutch electronic giant's Speech Recognition Systems busin...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now publishing most of the edits used in its Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE) program to improve the accuracy of claims payments."It is alw...

The QuadraMed Corporation is adding business intelligence tools to its hospital registration software through InterSystems' newly launched DeepSee technology.InterSystems, based in Cambridge, Ma...

According to a study published in the latest issue of the [italics] Journal of the Ame...

Medicaid enrollment is up and state budgets are down, making for some tough times in state Medicaid programs, according to an annual Kaiser Family Foundation Medicaid report released Monday....

Medi-CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, a not-for-profit healthcare insurer, has signed a three-year, multi-million dollar contract with Andover, Mass.-based technology company CGI Group for business p...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced $36 million in new grant programs to 28 states to help senior citizens and veterans remain independent and to support people with Alzheim...

National retail pharmacy chain Walgreens has paid the United States government and four participating states $9.9 million to resolve allegations of falsely billing the Medicaid program.Walgre...

MaineCare doesn't have liberal eligibility and people don't move in and out of the state based upon benefits supplied by the program, but it covers a high percentage of Maine's over-65 population....