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CHICAGO – Allscripts is teaming up with a Hawaii-based physician management services organization on a new product designed to ease pay-for-performance reporting guidelines for physicians....
New York City will spend about $30 million to equip more than 1,000 primary care physician offices with electronic health records, enough to cover 1 million patients. According to...
NEWARK, NJ – Partners in Care and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey’s one-year pilot on the patient centered medical home (PC-MH) has demonstrated improved clinical outcomes and...
TALLAHASSEE, FL – According to the 2006 Census, Florida ranks 46th in the country in health insurance coverage, with 21.2 percent (3.8 million residents) uninsured. To ta...
WASHINGTON – As part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Congress appropriated $50 million each year in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 and $75 million for 2009 and each subsequent year for the Cen...
WASHINGTON –Several healthcare groups have banded together to ask Congress for an increase in federal funding of Medicaid program subsidies. The National Governors Association h...
OTHER THAN A SHIFT from fee-for-service to managed care, the private healthcare financing system has pretty much operated the same way for decades: Employers buy health insurance for workers, provider...
CHARLESTON, SC – As more and more Americans adopt a “do-it-yourself” attitude toward the healthcare market, providers are realizing that they can’t sit back and wait for the bu...
MPV signs contracts with 4 Western health groups Medical Present Value, Inc., of Austin, Texas has announced that four Western-based multi-specialty groups have signed contracts to impl...
Despite the promise of a value-based purchasing approach for paying the nation's hospitals, the nation still has a ways to go in designing a system that is accurate and effective....