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By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | May 15, 2008
A report released Tuesday by the Aberdeen Group puts more than 40 information technology vendors with healthcare products among the top 100 most influential technology companies over the past five yea...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | May 15, 2008
Provider organizations peppered a House small business committee during a Wednesday hearing with concerns about the Recovery Audit Contractor program.Witnesses provided their views on the progra...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | May 15, 2008
National Health Partners, Inc., a provider of discount healthcare membership programs, and the Polish National Alliance, the largest ethnically-based fraternal insurance society in the United States,...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | May 15, 2008
A subsidiary of a large banking firm is introducing a new tool to its medical claims processing service intended to facilitate claims payment posting.JP Morgan Healthcare Solutions on Wednesd...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | May 14, 2008
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, praised Eli Lilly and Company on Tuesday for endorsing a national registry of drug industry payments to medical doctors...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | May 14, 2008
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 years....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | May 14, 2008
A survey last year of 450 major employers by Hewitt Associates found that close to half either offer or plan to offer incentives to employees to participate in health- or wellness-related initiatives....
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | May 13, 2008
Hewlett-Packard Company officials announced that they have signed a $13.9 billion deal to acquire Electronic Data Systems Corp. in an effort to strengthen their services business.Under terms...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | May 13, 2008
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 percent cut go into eff...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | May 13, 2008
With the implementation on July 18 of "An Act To Prohibit Hospitals from Charging for Treatment To Correct Medical Mistakes" (L.D. 2044/H.P. 1428) Maine will join other states who have decid...