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Approximately 135,000 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, or BCBSNC, members can directly benefit from the Medication Dedication program, which began on Jan. 1. By...
A report issued on Thursday by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services is calling on the agency to require that physician-owned specialty hospitals be able t...
The American Medical Association kicked off the second phase of its Voice For The Uninsured campaign Wednesday with a multi-million dollar broadcast, print and online advertising buy....
A massive rebuilding project expected to take at least a dozen years and cost more than $1 billion on the Stanford University campus received a significant shot in the arm from a private contributor....
WellPoint, Inc., the nation's largest health benefits company, announced Tuesday that it will soon have a new system for consumers to rate their overall experience with their doctor and share it with...
Craneware, Inc. has announced the release of a new software application designed to help hospitals capture lost reimbursements for medications. Pharmacy ChargeLink is designed to e...
A second phase of a competitive bidding program, to be nationally implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will enable the agency to prevent dishonest suppliers from participatin...
AcerMed, Inc., the once-prosperous ambulatory EMR/PM software vendor that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last September, has been sold. Ophthalmic Imaging Systems of Sacramento, Cali...
Healthcare spending in 2006 totaled about $2.1 trillion in 2006, according to figures released Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. That works out to an average of $7,0...
Americans will have to shoulder greater and greater healthcare costs into the future, with incomes unlikely to keep pace with the increases, a new study shows. The study, rel...