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Health Language, Inc. (HLI), which specializes in medical and administrative terminology management, announced Thursday that the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has selected HLI as a preferred vendor to help Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies transition smoothly and efficiently from ICD-9 to ICD-10 by the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Nautic Partners LLC, a Providence-based private equity firm, has acquired Reliant Hospital Partners, LLC, a Dallas-based operator of seven rehabilitation facilities.
Two studies released in March within a week of each other demonstrate the importance of higher nursing staff levels to patient outcomes, and, indirectly, to managing healthcare costs.
Consumer Watchdog, a non-partisan consumer advocacy group, announced Tuesday that it has called on the Obama administration to make health reform waivers "the exception, not the rule."
A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation on the effects of raising Medicare's eligibility age to 67 in 2014 shows that while the federal government would achieve $7.5 billion in savings, the move would also result in $10.1 billion in extra costs for 65- and 66-year-olds and employer-sponsored retiree healthcare costs.
Five healthcare systems in the Central Atlantic region have united to form the Central Atlantic Health Network, a supply purchasing collaborative.
The current healthcare system is a "graveyard," says Paul Grundy, MD, president of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, but he has a roadmap that will take the country to the promised land.
Health Care REIT, Inc., a real estate investment trust based in Toledo, Ohio, has completed the formation of an $890 million partnership with Benchmark Senior Living, which was previously announced on February 15, 2011.
Rural/Metro Corporation, a national provider of ambulance and private fire protection services in 20 states, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by the global private equity firm Warburg Pincus in an all-cash transaction.
When the National Resident Matching Program announced earlier this month that for two years running the number of U.S. medical student seniors who will train as family medicine residents rose, the clamor began: Does this indicate a trend? Will the worries about a shortage of primary care physicians be dispelled?