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Health centers can meet standards, study says Community health centers can adopt national performance standards and improve their quality of care. Results of a recent study concluded th...
WASHINGTON – The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted in early January in favor of a 1.1 percent increase in Medicare payments for doctors in 2009. The vote comes as a pre...
MINNEAPOLIS – Two companies – one a healthcare payer, the other a company offering services to physicians – are collaborating to bring real-time adjudication to physician offices....
The TriZetto Group has unveiled its Member Benefit Profile and Treatment Cost Navigator solutions and enhanced the Benefit Cost Modeler. The three Web-based solutions are desig...
Accuro Healthcare Solutions Inc. has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell an initial public offering of stock. The company hopes to raise...
THE MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION (MedPAC) – an independent body comprised mainly of physicians – has determined that doctors should be paid a 1.1 percent increase for Medicare serv...
WASHINGTON – Physicians have until February 15 to decide whether they will participate in the nation's Medicare program. The new cutoff date gave practices an additional 45 days beyond the origi...
Figuring out how to fully contain healthcare costs is one difficult task. It reminds me of the age-old impossibility of trying to close your hand completely around a balloon that, while partially defl...
STANFORD, CA – A massive rebuilding project at Stanford Medical Center campus, expected to take at least a dozen years and cost $1 billion to $2 billion, is taking its initial steps toward...
LONDON – After years of predicting that healthcare organizations would begin buying electronic health records, that time has apparently come. Spending on complex clinical information...