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BOSTON – Massachusetts hospitals will no longer charge patients or insurers for treatments rendered to address preventable errors that occur within a hospital. With this annou...

HARTFORD, CN – Aetna is launching an Aetna Health Actions Rx-Savings incentive program for its self-funded employer groups. After one year of adoption, its pilot customer,...

CHARLESTON, SC – Just in time for the new year: Health insurance purchased online. Motivated in part by a roughly 30 percent increase in online purchases during the recent hol...

WASHINGTON – Dialysis patients got a six-month reprieve in December when both the Senate and the House approved the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Act of 2007. However, many groups are still worri...

WASHINGTON – Spending on hospital services could top $1 trillion in 2008, based on estimated growth in hospital charges between 1997 and 2005. Data also indicates that the growth i...

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a report to Congress recommending major changes to its Medicare hospital reimbursement system. Touting qua...

Nextgen healthcare launches practice solutions NextGen Healthcare has launched NextGen Practice Solutions, a business division directed toward providing physician practices with revenue c...

WASHINGTON – For the second time in two months, President Bush vetoed legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program in an effort to prevent Congressional Democrats from...

Incentive model could save nation $368B, report says Investment in a healthcare incentive, decision-making and cost-effectiveness program could save the United States $368 billion over 10...

WASHINGTON – Payers are supporting Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt’s call for large payers, including Medicare and Medicaid, to mandate e-prescribing....