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Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is considering converting to a for-profit company.The not-for-profit health service corporation filed an application for conversion with the state...
As information is digitized in healthcare, there's greater risk in the transmission and storage of confidential medical and financial information.To cover these risks, Premier Insurance Manag...
The Amerigroup Corporation, a Virginia Beach, Va.-based health insurer, will pay $225 million to settle fraud allegations against the Illinois Medicaid program.Amerigroup and its Illinois sub...
As Medicare's Part D prescription drug program enters its fourth year, government officials say the program has been a success. "Measured by enrollment, lower costs than originally expec...
An electronic exchange specializing in healthcare and a provider of payment processing solutions and services say they are teaming up in efforts to speed the invoice-to-payment process for hospitals....
The Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, announced Friday the completion of its merger with MEDecision, a Wayne, pa.-based pro...
Hospital patients looking for an easier way to plan out their payments - and hospitals looking for a better way to collect them - might benefit from a recently announced partnership between two provid...
A recent survey suggests that many Americans have cut back on medical care spending to save money. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a voluntary organization based in Kansa...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Thursday that all physician groups participating in the Physician Group Practice Demonstration have earned $16.7 million in incentive payment...
URAC has approved revisions to nine of its healthcare management accreditation programs. The standards require the use of national quality measures and stress greater efficiency in the healthcare syst...