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By Patty Enrado | 12:00 am | January 11, 2008
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...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | January 10, 2008
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...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | January 10, 2008
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....
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | January 10, 2008
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....
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 10, 2008
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...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 10, 2008
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...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | January 09, 2008
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...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | January 09, 2008
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...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | January 09, 2008
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...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 09, 2008
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...