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CUPERTINO, CA – Healthcare organizations that are victimized by theft or loss of data are more likely to be hit by financial losses from declines in reputation and additional expenses, compared...
WASHINGTON – Congress used special methods late in December to approve a bill that would defer a 10.1 percent Medicare payment cut for physicians that was scheduled to take effect January 1....
THERE ARE MORE than 23,000 independent pharmacies, and 75,000 pharmacists in the United States. In 2006, after five years of stability, 1,152 pharmacies, about 5 percent of the nation’s ph...
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...
BELFAST, ME – Another member of the Bush family is coming to Maine. athenahealth, a Watertown, Mass.-based provider of Internet-based business services for physician practices, has announced...
Medical practices having problems with slow-paying customers or insurance collections might be advised to try a new solution that promises to speed up the process. Transworld...
CHICAGO – Hospitals seem to be adjusting to the need for more specific coding by moving that responsibility to interdisciplinary processes and adopting clinical documentation improvement pr...
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Findings from a data warehouse containing medical claims from three of Louisiana’s major payers reveals unwarranted variations in care throughout the state....
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published a proposed regulation on Monday that would help qualifying low-income individuals get assistance in paying their premiums for the Medicare prescr...