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Humana Inc., one of the largest providers of Medicare Advantage plans in the country, this morning reported higher earnings in the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011 compared to 2010.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services needs to strengthen its oversight capacity, according to the Office of Inspector General's annual summary of management and performance challenges facing the agency.
A burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to 3 million by 2016, according to a new report on the mHealth sector from Juniper R
Healthcare IT firm Greenphire announced today that it has formed an exclusive strategic partnership with the clinical trials division of Merge Healthcare.
Job growth in the healthcare sector will outpace other sectors through 2020 predicts new statistics released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The American Medical Association (AMA) urges HHS to put the breaks on ICD-10, while the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) wants to stay the course.
Hospital audits conducted through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program are usually handled by compliance departments and are generally managed by a single full-time employee (FTE), according to a new survey from the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA).
After presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) came in fourth in the Florida primary Jan. 31, he told supporters during his closing speech that he is eager to meet Mitt Romney in the caucus states, one of which is Nevada, on Saturday.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act saved more than $2.1 billion in the cost of prescription drugs for more than 3.6 million seniors enrolled in Medicare in 2011.
Health information exchange will ramp up significantly in 2012 because the necessary elements of interoperability will be in place, ONC chief Farzad Mostashari, told the Health IT Policy Committee at a meeting Feb. 1.