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By Chris Anderson | 11:21 am | July 28, 2010
CVS Caremark and Aetna have signed a 12-year contract to provide pharmacy benefit management services to Aetna's 9.7 million customers and members, representing more than $9.5 billion in annual drug spending.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:16 am | July 28, 2010
The L.A. Care Health Plan has approved $153,000 in funding for the Western Health Information Network, which will connect at least 10 Los Angeles County community clinics to an existing health information exchange network.
By Diana Manos | 11:15 am | July 28, 2010
Generic medications have saved the American healthcare system more than $824 billion over the past decade - and $139.6 billion alone in 2009 - according to a new study.
By Chelsey Ledue | 11:37 am | July 27, 2010
Employees at Providence Tarzana Medical Center voted recently to leave the Service Employees International Union and join the National Union of Healthcare Workers.
By Diana Manos | 11:14 am | July 27, 2010
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will make available $2.25 billion in state grants to support community-based alternatives to institutional long-term care.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:44 am | July 27, 2010
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) has launched a series of online quizzes and tools aimed at educating seniors about how the Affordable Care Act affects their Medicare benefits, the growth of Medicare and the budget deficit.
By Richard Pizzi | 10:32 am | July 27, 2010
Healthcare reform legislation in Massachusetts, first enacted by the commonwealth's legislature in 2006 and revised in 2008, contains payment reform principles that likely offer insight into national reform efforts.
By Chris Anderson | 10:06 am | July 27, 2010
A Harris Interactive Poll shows most seniors are ill-informed or misinformed on 12 vital facts they should know about health reform and how it affects their Medicare benefits.
By Eric Wicklund | 07:55 am | July 27, 2010
A Georgia-based healthcare system is looking to two well-known healthcare IT companies to help improve its processing of medical claims and prepare for the conversion from ICD-9 codes sets to ICD-10.
By Diana Manos | 11:41 am | July 26, 2010
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released its annual healthcare state-by-state quality report, which includes new data on health insurance.