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NaviNet, the real-time healthcare communications network, has announced NaviNet Doc Xchange, which enables electronic document exchange among providers, insurers and others, reducing mail- and fax-based submission.
A private equity group led by Apax Partners has agreed to buy San Antonio-based Kinetic Concepts, a publicly traded wound-care and tissue-regeneration company, for $6.3 billion, including debt.
A proposed revision of the "advice" exemption of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) of 1959 will restrict access to legal counsel and forwards an organized labor agenda, opponents say.
Industry research firm IBISWorld has forecast the top 10 sectors that will benefit from the creation of state health insurance exchanges under the new rules released this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
A report from the PricewaterhouseCoopers US Health Research Institute finds that policies offered by state health insurance exchanges could be worth nearly $60 billion by 2014 - and grow to nearly $200 billion by 2019.
A new proposed rule has been released by the Department of Health and Human Services outlining ways that states can design and manage their health insurance marketplaces to allow consumers and businesses to comparison shop for health plans starting in 2014.
ClearPractice's new cloud-based platform allows small practices to consolidate their EMR and PM functions on one platform, accessible by Macs, iPhones and iPads.
Although CMS made changes to the billing of concurrent therapy and higher levels of therapy at skilled nursing facilities, Medicare payment rates increased by $2.1 billion between the last six months of 2010 to the first half of 2011, said a report from OIG.
Some form of shared savings and bundled payments will become a reality no matter if it looks like the current proposals of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) or a version that is developed for a Republican agenda because the current healthcare cost trends are unsustainable.
The Department of Health and Human Services has released a proposed rule detailing how states can create and operate their health insurance marketplaces, where consumers and small businesses can comparison shop for health plans starting in 2014.