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On Monday, America's Health Insurance Plans announced "a roadmap for reform" to expand health insurance coverage to include the more than 40 million uninsured Americans. AHIP's plan will build on exis...

Professional medical organizations were quick to react to a rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that established a 5 percent reduction in physician payments for 2007....

Three healthcare organizations have developed a Web-based tool to help physicians assess patient safety procedures, with an eye toward reducing practices’ liability exposure....

Following quality measures in treating patients saved lives and money in four of five disease types, according to results of a joint government-private sector pay-for-performance project....

Changing coding methodologies remain as contentious and divisive as ever within the healthcare industry. The extent of that division has become more apparent than ever in recent...

Business Objects is betting that financial managers in hospitals are getting tired of guessing at the actual costs of providing services and procedures in their facilities. This...

Many believe healthcare issues will remain dead in the water despite the change in power ushered in by the 2006 midterm elections.  “The short answer is –...

While Computer Sciences Corp.'s Blue Health Intelligence data warehouse has been deployed at only three Blues plans since July, the industry is beginning to recognize the benefits this type of warehou...

Home healthcare providers are ready to fight to retain an expected update in Medicare's reimbursement for its services. While the increase, termed an inflationary adjus...

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