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The use of information technology is the focus of a foundation formed by The Regence Group, which will fund $2.5 million in healthcare projects in its first year and $4 million per year thereafter....
The House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Health took a look Tuesday at the instability of healthcare coverage in America. The hearing, called by Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark (...
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association says any plans for healthcare reform should include incentives to provide quality care. At a Capitol Hill briefing Tuesday, BCBSA officials told Whi...
Board-certified radiologist Fred Steinberg, MD, along with his imaging centers and related entities in Palm Beach County, Fla., will pay $7 million to the government to settle charges of healthcare fr...
Technology, well-thought-out policies and senior management buy-in will serve providers well when it comes to collecting from patients at the point of service (POS), according to B...
Provider groups, reacting to uncertainty surrounding the use of national provider identifiers on claims forms, are asking the government to delay enforcing use of the numbers after May 23.Var...
The pressure will rise for hospitals to provide high-quality care and reduce mistakes, as Medicare seeks to tie reimbursement to quality.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is an...
A new Web resource that allows users to learn, share and adopt innovations in the delivery of healthcare services is expected to help hospitals save money in the education process of best practices -...
Aria Systems, a provider of on-demand transaction and customer management solutions, is teaming up with Rackspace, a global provider of hosted IT services, to provide on-demand billing for the Service...
Stakes for control of labor organizing in healthcare organizations grew exponentially Saturday after a confrontation between members of two union groups in Dearborn, Mich....