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For the three million veterans living in rural areas, access to healthcare remains a major barrier – but wireless technology shows promise.

Emdeon, a Nashville-based provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management solutions, has acquired Chapin Revenue Cycle Management of Tampa, Fla., a provider of hospital-based revenue cycle services, including accounts receivable management, medical denials, appeals and collection improvement initiatives.

DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance will write the health promotion and wellness section of an online guide to value-based healthcare purchasing.

The Department of Health and Human Services awarded George Washington University a $1 million contract to study various healthcare reimbursement incentive approaches used by large government and commercial payers.

Physicians in primary care specialties experienced a 2.8 percent increase in their median compensation in 2009, according to the Medical Group Management Association.

President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had some tough words and new rules for insurance companies Tuesday following a White House meeting with insurance executives and state insurance commissioners.

Connecticut is the first state to add low-income adults to its Medicaid program under the new Affordable Care Act, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

The U.S. healthcare system comes in last for performance among seven industrialized nations despite spending the most, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.

One expert at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI conference in Las Vegas this week said getting back to financial basics will help a hospital weather the changes ahead.

The National Governors Association is calling for Senate leaders to extend the Medicaid funding boost states were given under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.