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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 06:44 pm | December 15, 2011
The use of mobile applications to help manage members' health and wellness are gaining traction with payers, as they look to connect to their members via mobile technology many already use everyday.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 06:01 pm | December 15, 2011
Two months past deadline, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a proposed rule offering guidelines for how drug and device makers will report their contracts with physicians.
By Rene Letourneau | 04:38 pm | December 15, 2011
The proportion of Americans reporting problems affording prescription drugs remained level between 2007 and 2010, with more than one in eight going without a prescribed drug in 2010, according to a national study released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change. Despite the flat numbers, the news isn't necessarily good.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:06 pm | December 15, 2011
Axial Exchange, which develops interoperability technologies based on an open-infrastructure platform, has won the "Ensuring Safe Transitions from Hospital to Home" initiative, sponsored by Health 2.0 and the Department of Health and
By Chris Anderson | 11:18 am | December 15, 2011
The National Center for Health Statistics released new data yesterday showing 2.5 million more adults 26 and under had health insurance than would have without passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
By Rene Letourneau | 11:11 am | December 15, 2011
Fujifilm Holdings Corporation announced Wednesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ultrasound technology firm SonoSite, Inc. for approximately $995 million.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:08 am | December 15, 2011
Twenty-nine hospitals in Greater Philadelphia cut readmission rates by 7 percent and saved $3.8 million in the third quarter, according to Transitions of Care Survey Summary Report from the Health Care Improvement Foundation.
By Rene Letourneau | 05:27 pm | December 14, 2011
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $218 million Wednesday to 26 hospitals and health systems to reduce the millions of preventable injuries and complications caused by healthcare-acquired conditions each year.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 04:11 pm | December 14, 2011
A House bill passed Tuesday that included a "fix" to the ongoing sustainable growth rate problem is expected to meet its demise in the Senate. If the bill somehow survives, President Barack Obama has threatened to veto it. Where does that leave doctors? Facing the likelihood of a 27.4 percent pay cut.
By Chris Anderson | 11:52 am | December 14, 2011
Only 27 percent of physicians believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will likely reduce healthcare costs by increasing efficiency and half believe access to healthcare will decrease because of hospital closures that will result from the law, according to a new study published yesterday by industry consulting firm Deloitte.