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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing new rules that would give states flexibility in designing their own Medicaid programs, with the hopes of aligning the federal-state programs w...

Medicare is moving closer to a prospective payment system for the dialysis centers that supply ongoing care to beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease, or ESRD. A report to Cong...

The city attorney for Los Angeles has reacted quickly to citizen complaints filed on a new Web site, filing suit on Thursday against health insurer Health Net Inc. Los Angeles C...

Merge Healthcare Inc. has laid out a game plan for economic survival, including debt or equity financing, the sale of selected assets and ongoing cost saving initiatives. The Milwa...

By automating invoice processing, the Mayo Clinic hopes to rid itself of the costs and errors associated with manual processing. Mayo Clinic has chosen to use Brainware's intelligent...

Hospitals looking to make their patients a little happier while tapping into a overlooked revenue stream might be interested in a new partnership between GetWellNetwork, Inc. and The Paquin Group, a p...

The HLTH Corp. and the WebMD subsidiary in which it holds a majority stake have announced a definitive deal to merge. Under the agreement announced Thursday, HLTH, which owns an...

Spending on hospital and health facility construction is rising at a record pace and could exceed $60 billion annually by 2010, according to a report released Tuesday. Construction...

COLUMBUS, OH - New findings released by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College say the sharp rise in the National Retirement Risk Index can be blamed on the cost of healthcare....

BOSTON- An organization representing the information management outsourcing industry is taking issue with a new Illinois law that provides wide access to information from electronic health records, sa...