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By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has awarded more than $49 million in grants to 30 states to provide health insurance to residents who can't get conventional coverage because of the...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
THE CENTERS for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a massive proposed rule to update its approach for paying for hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center services.Under the r...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
CHICAGO – In an effort to boost transparency, the American Medical Association has released an insurer report card that lays bare the differences among seven national health insurers when it com...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
Adequate financing, improving the quality of care services and developing an adequate, skilled workforce are some of the urgent challenges facing long-term care in the future, said respondents to the...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
Report: CMS needs better oversight of programsThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services needs to do a better job monitoring the billions of dollars it provides in supplemental payme...
By Jack Beaudoin | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
AUGUSTA, ME – A new national coalition of unions, community action groups, women's organizations and progressive think tanks kicked off a four-month blitz in July with a single aim – to fo...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
AHI Software, Inc., a provider of on-demand patient access management solutions, has launched an eligibility verification solution."Our Eligibility Verification solution provides accurat...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
ER Urgent Care Centers of Florida has announced that the company has reached an agreement, in principle, with a funding source to provide the capital needed to initiate the company’s plan...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
WASHINGTON - Physicians can rest easy for at least another year. On July 15, Congress approved the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (H.R. 6331), passed July 9,...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 21, 2008
Two senators are trying to overcome a policy implemented last year to limit the number of people enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program.Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and...