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Members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce introduced a bill last week to block an estimated $20 billion in cuts to Medicaid over the next five years due to new regulations imposed under th...

It's not just about information technology or the cost of delivering care, but those two factors play a role in a complex formula that technology company Thompson Healthcare uses to measure the top 10...

A new Kaiser Family Foundation study indicates employers who provide healthcare coverage to their workers in 2005 are paying a dollar more per hour to insure an employee than they did six years earlie...

Health Language, Inc., an Aurora, Colo.-based supplier of language engine technology for medical vocabulary, has announced a partnership with BridgeForward Software, a supplier of interf...

A bill introduced by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) is aimed at blocking the looming 10.6 percent Medicare payment cut scheduled for July 1. The bill, if passed, would help...

The Ohio State Medical Association is launching a "Standards of Excellence" program to help reduce the financial risk for physicians who wish to adopt an electronic medical record system for their pra...

In advance of its annual meeting in Marietta, Ga., the Medical Banking Project has announced the development of standards meant to ensure health data privacy and security for medical banking constitue...

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. has agreed to acquire a portfolio of up to 21 healthcare facilities from HCP, Inc. for $371 million. The acquisition from HCP, Inc., a real estate i...

More companies are offering consumer-directed health plans, and those adopting such plans are seeing their healthcare costs drop, according to results of a recent survey. The numbe...

Odyssey Healthcare has received a $160 million senior secured credit facility from GE Healthcare, Inc., for its recent acquisition of VistaCare, Inc. Dallas-based Odyssey now oper...