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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...
EL SEGUNDO, CA – A new report says hospitals have yet to fully implement existing technologies that can help them deploy more efficient care strategies. Hospitals are under r...
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...
BENTONVILLE, AR - Wal-Mart is partnering with local hospital systems to open co-branded clinics across the country that officials say will tout greater savings for all involved. Wal-Mart...
Ama advocates for med students and residents The American Medical Association (AMA) successfully secured a number of provisions in the higher education reauthorization bill, kn...
CHEYENNE, WY – In early 2004, the Wyoming Department of Health began developing a program within Medicaid (EqualityCare) to improve the health management of its population, regardless of...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – In an effort to improve transparency of its prices, Spectrum Health last month began publicizing the average prices paid by major payers for 250 common procedures....
ALPHARETTA, GA – MedAssets Inc., which became a publicly owned company in mid-December through an initial public offering of stock, is making some noise. That’s quite a cont...
DOJ JOINS Whistleblower suits against 3 hospitals The U.S. Department of Justice has announced its collaboration with three whistleblowers in two lawsuits against three New Jersey hos...
Hospital executives are exacting some revenge on payers that they perceive as being difficult to work with. Responses from 113 hospital executives, representing about 500 hospit...