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By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | March 13, 2008
A new report indicates U.S. prescription drug sales increased by only 3.8 percent in 2007, down from an 8 percent increase the year before. The annual U.S. Pharmaceutical Marke...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 13, 2008
Cigna HealthCare has expanded the number of retail clinics for which it covers treatment this week by announcing the addition of a chain with sites in Arkansas and Texas. Cigna announ...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 12, 2008
One member of the Senate is predicting that a "stealth provision" for health issues in the fiscal 2009 budget resolution now being reconciled is likely to result in a presidential veto....
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | March 12, 2008
CSI Financial Services, a provider of loan programs for underinsured and uninsured patients, is implementing a program to improve cash flow generation and collection rates and streamline office admini...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 12, 2008
A lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks to stop the federal agency from implementing a regulation that would restrict how states fund Medicaid programs and p...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 11, 2008
Two companies are launching an initiative to help state Medicaid programs save money by avoiding the manual recovery of pharmacy claims from commercial insurers. The proprietary pr...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 11, 2008
Optio Software, a provider of technology solutions to improve document handling and management, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Bottomline Technologies. The deal was a...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | March 10, 2008
Raleigh, N.C.-based DocSite, a provider of Web-based patient registries and point-of-care decision support to the healthcare market, has announced that Middlesex Professional Services, Inc., an...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | March 10, 2008
Physician practices are responding to the uncertain reimbursement environment and the failure of Medicare physician payments to keep pace with the cost of delivering care, according to research conduc...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 10, 2008
State Medicaid directors say regulatory changes proposed by the administration for Medicaid policy will be much larger than predicted, and a new report blasts the administration for its approach to th...