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The McKesson Corp. is boosting its RelayHealth connectivity services business with the acquisition of HTP, a Columbus, Ohio-based provider of healthcare compensation services.HTP's software s...
A new report from the Government Accountability Office indicates that health savings accounts are held by few people - but those who do have the tax-advantaged accounts are likely to have higher incom...
Health insurers saw net premiums grow across the board in 2007, according to a recent survey from SNL Financial.Across the insurance industry, SNL reported that it was a highly profitable yea...
MedAssets, Inc. has agreed to acquire Accuro Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a provider of revenue cycle management software. The transaction is expected to be completed within 60 to 90 days....
A committee of the American Medical Association has sent its proposal for payment rates to implement a medical home demonstration project to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.T...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has turned its attention to changing the Medicare hospice wage index.Among other planned changes, CMS announced Tuesday that it will eliminate a...
An analysis conducted for the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, "Medicaid, SCHIP and Economic Downturn: Policy Challenges and Policy Responses," projects t...
Software application products of the Atlanta-based Eclipsys Corp. will be offered to members of Premier, Inc. through an agreement announced Tuesday between the application developer and the group pur...
Six independent rural Maryland hospitals will implement virtual intensive care units, to be monitored by an existing virtual ICU program in an integrated delivery system based in Delaware. Th...
Health Evolution Partners, the investment management firm founded by the nation's former national healthcare information technology chief, has made its first investment - an undisclosed amount - in e-...