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When Steve Krautscheid, employment coordinator at Tuality Healthcare, needs to fill a vacancy in the two-hospital network just outside of Portland, Ore., he goes online and fills out a request form....
Medicare posts inpatient, outpatient data onlineThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is making more information available on hospital pricing to give consumers data on...
Small employers dealing with the myriad complications of employee healthcare programs might be able to find some relief in eEnrollmentXpress, a new benefit enrollment offering from Benefitfocus....
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will continue to develop an expanded demonstration project testing a pay-for-performance approach for reimbursing the nation's hospitals.The ini...
Underpayment for treatment of Medicare patients continues to be among the biggest woes of hospitals with low wage indices. Nevertheless, the wage index persists as one of the weightiest factors that t...
Growing interest in providing simple healthcare in inexpensive settings has spawned rising interest in convenient care clinics. Now there’s a trade group to represent the concept. The Con...
The 2006 healthcare bond volume is strong despite significant declines since 2005 - a year that saw record numbers in borrowing for healthcare organizations and $40 billion in issuance. Last year̵...
Computer Sciences Corp. has signed on to develop an IT data warehouse for Care Focused Purchasing, a not-for-profit entity comprising more than 50 employers and seven national and regional health plan...
Looking to expand on its footprint in the healthcare information field, WebMD Health Corp. has entered into an agreement to buy Subimo, LLC, a provider of healthcare information support applications t...
Professional medical organizations were quick to react last month to a rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that established a 5 percent reduction in physician payments for 20...