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The Premier healthcare alliance is looking to boost cost savings opportunities and improvement goals for hospitals through its enhanced supply chain benchmarking tool, SupplyFocus."The n...
Express Scripts, one of the nation's largest pharmacy benefits management companies, has reached a settlement agreement with the state of Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia and 28 other states res...
NEW YORK - Commonwealth Fund researchers have created a plan that would insure 44 million of the estimated 48 million uninsured Americans in 2008 and save approximately $1.6 trillion over the next 10...
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has turned its attention to changing the Medicare hospice wage index.Among other planned changes, CMS announced in late April...
WASHINGTON – Various physician organizations told a House panel last week that they anticipate a significant number of their memberships dropping from Medicare participation should the 10.6 perc...
NEW YORK – A study of the prevalence of conditions in the U.S. employer-insured population provides a glimpse of the capabilities of large-scale analysis of claims databases with de-identified r...
Microsoft Corp. officials announced that the company's HealthVault Be Well Fund has increased its funding to $4.5 million after receiving nearly 200 proposals from leading academic and research health...
A Take Care Health Clinic has opened at a Walgreens store in Rockford, Ill., and three more retail health clinics are expected to open in Rockford this year.The Rockford-based clinic is a wal...
Healthcare providers who submit claims this week will be crossing their fingers that the switch to national provider identifiers will go smoothly and that reimbursements will follow without any disrup...
Effective June 1, The American Academy of Family Physicians' $8 million practice redesign initiative, TransforMED, will become a limited liability corporation, wholly owned by the AAFP. Trans...