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In advance of a daylong summit on health reform next week, a Senate committee discussed problems surrounding the health insurance market and how it might be solved.The Senate Finance Committe...
Among the many efforts to delay the first round of the durable medical equipment competitive bidding program, a letter urging the delay has been circulated in the Senate by Sens. George Voinovich (R-O...
The Princeton Healthcare System has launched a fundraising campaign to help finance construction of a new $441 million Princeton University Medical Center, to be located in Plainsboro, N.J.Th...
The Premier healthcare alliance, which lists 2,000 hospitals across the country as members, says the type of quality reporting that requires proprietary information, tools or methodology is too expens...
Medical tourism and medical student debt burden and its impact on the physician shortage, are two of the hot topics to be discussed at a five-day meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago...
Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft Corp. are launching a pilot project to bring Microsoft's HealthVault platform together with Kaiser Permanente's personal health records for use by Kaiser employees and...
A merger two years in the making between Inova Health System and Prince William Health System was halted on Friday, with both sides citing the threat of action by the Federal Trade Commission....
Enclarity, Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif. has unveiled Provider SelectFile, a subscription service that supplies demographics, other credentials and key identifiers for specific providers to enabl...
In an effort to detect potential fraud and waste in the Medicaid program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will use data analysis services provided by Thomson Reuters.Thom...
Chamberlin, Edmonds and Associates, a company that provides specialized eligibility determination services to hospitals, has been acquired The Atlanta-based company was acquired by three e...