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Eleven more communities will join the 14 designated by the government as Chartered Value Exchanges - healthcare collaborations focused on improved care and making quality and price information widely...
The increase in popularity of home health and hospice care, fueled in part by an aging Baby Boomer population, has provided a windfall of sorts for HEALTHCAREfirst.The 16-year-old developer o...
AcademyHealth has released a new voluntary code of ethics for use in recruiting foreign-educated nurses. The code, authored by a task force of union members, healthcare organizations, educati...
MetroSouth Medical Center - the new name for St. Francis Hospital & Health Center, which was acquired in July by MSMC Investors - will deploy a surgical information system at its hospital in Blue...
The move to eliminate payments to providers who make mistakes isn't that easy, noted the American Hospital Association in a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.In comme...
The Medical Group Management Association has submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in response to its proposed 2009 Physician Fee Schedule.Among its recommendat...
Humana, Inc. has completed a $14 million acquisition of West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Metcare Health Plans, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Metropolitan Health Networks.MHP offers a Medicare...
On its last day in session, the California Senate passed the latest version of a bill that would guarantee healthcare for all state residents.By a vote of 22-14, the Senate on August 31 passe...
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana is piloting an ER initiative program aimed at reducing emergency room visits. The program is an effort to help ensure that Hoosier Healthwise, a h...
Ninety-two percent of hospital healthcare information management directors are familiar with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program, and 40 percent of...