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By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | June 06, 2008
Walgreens has agreed to pay more than  $35 million to settle Medicare reimbursement disputes that resulted from the company allegedly switching three of its drugs from generic drugs to name brand...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | June 06, 2008
Public health departments, hospitals and other health care organizations will receive $1.1 billion in aid from the Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen their ability to respond to pub...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | June 05, 2008
Merge Healthcare has announced a corporate reorganization, the latest and most drastic in a string of maneuvers designed to keep the troubled provider of medical imaging and information management sof...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | June 05, 2008
SCIOinspire, a Hartford, Conn.-based provider of cost-containment services for healthcare payers, is boosting its portfolio with the acquisition of Solucia, Inc. - its second deal in little more than...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | June 05, 2008
Wayne State University's Physician Group will adopt a centrally-hosted practice management and billing service for its network of more than 400 providers.The medical group has signed a contra...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | June 04, 2008
Two letters signed by 132 members of the U.S. House of Representatives urge the leaders of the Ways and Means Committee and its subcommittee on health to delay the "controversial and flawed"...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | June 04, 2008
Amid growing concern about the ethics of physicians accepting gifts from pharmaceutical manufacturers, a recent survey gave U.S. medical schools a poor grade on the topic.Only 21 of 150 medic...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | June 04, 2008
In the first year of an effort to move Massachusetts to universal healthcare coverage, a report by the Commonwealth Fund finds that the number of working-age adults in Massachusetts without insurance...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | June 04, 2008
The HLTH Corp. continued to follow through on plans to sell subsidiaries by announcing the sale of its ViPS unit to General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. for $225 million in cash.The sal...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | June 03, 2008
An issue brief released Friday by the Commonwealth Fund says young adults between the ages 19 and 29 are one of the largest and fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population without health insurance...