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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AHI Software, Inc., a provider of on-demand patient access management solutions, has launched an eligibility verification solution."Our Eligibility Verification solution provides accurat...
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...
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,...
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...