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California's pharmacies won a court order last Friday to halt the proposed 10 percent payment cuts for prescription drugs dispensed under the Medi-Cal program. The action was made in response...
A veteran of the healthcare information technology industry has been tapped to lead AdvancedMD, nearly six months after the Salt Lake City-based provider of records management, billing and scheduling...
Miami resident Aisa Perera, 42, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for her role in an $11 million scheme to defraud the Medicare program.Judge Federico A. Moreno of the Southern Distri...
The Senate approved a bill on Thursday that will phase out Medicare's higher co-pays for mental health services, bringing them in line with co-pays for physical healthcare services.The Senate...
More than 50 hospitals in California will be joining the Blue Shield of California Foundation's expanded California Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Initiative, an effort to curb the million...
Regional health information organizations and health information exchanges may not be the answer to a nationwide network, according to David Westfall Bates, MD, an internist at Brigham & Women's H...
Though it's still on the horizon, the anticipated change from the current ICD-9 Medicare physician and hospital billing code systems to ICD-10 could cost healthcare providers a hefty amount of money,...
After a series of failed attempts to stall a 10.6 percent Medicare physician pay cut, Congress has approved a veto-proof fix. The new law will halt the July 1 pay cut for the rest of 2008 and provide...
A new white paper reports that despite a decline in the number of Web sites advertising or selling controlled prescription drugs in the past year, 85 percent of the sites selling these drugs don't req...
In an effort to assist small to medium-sized practices and community health centers in Florida, electronic health record provider Sevocity is offering $50,0000 in grants to spur clinics to adopt EHRs....