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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded Pinnacle Business Solutions, Inc. (PBSI) a contract of up to five years for combined administration of Part A and Part B Medicare cla...
Medical Present Value, Inc. of Austin, Texas has announced that three academic groups with 1,700 physicians – Seattle-based University of Washington Physicians, the Columbia, SC-based Uni...
A report issued Friday by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission came down strongly in the corner of increasing the role of primary care and the use of incentives and punishments to increase the eff...
More than one in four adult Americans without medical insurance have a mental illness or substance use disorder, or both, and are neglected by state healthcare initiatives for the uninsured, says a re...
A series of blows and counter-blows in the Senate killed all chances this week of a Medicare payment fix getting off the ground. With less than three weeks left to block the mandated payment...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will become the first health insurance company to give its members the ability to create their own personal health records using Google Health. The integr...
A recent survey has found that Americans spent more than $11 billion on treating allergies in 2005 - a cost that has nearly doubled since 2000.The survey, conducted by the Agency for Healthca...
Information technology and the ability to share health information are key to transforming the broken - and costly - U.S. healthcare system to one that keeps costs down by putting the patient and well...
Billing records for approximately 2.2 million patients and guarantors were reported stolen this week from the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics.Officials said they are now assessing...
As part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force that has been operating in Miami since March 2007, three Miami-area brothers who allegedly financed 11 "corrupt" HIV infusion clinics and a physici...