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BEFORE CONSUMERS can make knowledgeable healthcare buying decisions, they need transparent comparative data on cost and quality. Meaningful quality data is difficult to identify and measure, but charg...
CHICAGO – Consumers and insurance brokers are finding that the Internet is the medium of choice for gathering information on the complex individual health plan market. This is an important...
WHEN IS too much too much, or too little too little when it comes to government interference? That's a question on everyone's mind with the election and Republican vs Democrat solutions for the econom...
RECENT ACTION by the Federal Trade Commission highlights the dynamic tension in competition within the hospital industry today.Maintaining competition between healthcare organizations, in ord...
WASHINGTON – Provider organizations peppered a House committee with concerns about the Recovery Audit Contractor program during a meeting in May.Witnesses provided their views on the p...
SAN FRANCISCO – Helping providers maneuver their way through the intricacies of healthcare payments has always been one of the goals of RelayHealth. Now the McKesson subsidiary, which offers a p...
CMS announces demo for hospital-physician paymentThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services want to test an approach of bundling payment for both hospital and physician services. CMS...
Total U.S. healthcare spending could be reduced by an estimated $145 billion by 2015 if a plan proposed by America's Health Insurance Plans is followed, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.The propos...
WHENEVER THE PUBLIC securities market experiences extraordinary price volatility, most investors begin to question their investing discipline. It can be unsettling to see markets fluctuate wildly....
NEW YORK – The credit crunch appears to be affecting hospitals’ ability to raise capital and finance capital expenditures, especially for big-ticket items.A research report issued...