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The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation of CVS Caremark over allegations that the two-year-old company is squeezing the prescription drug distribution market for savings while not passing these savings on to plans and patients.
Quantros, Inc., a developer of data management and decision support solutions for the healthcare industry, is beefing up its business intelligence platform with the acquisition of the CareFusion Corporation’s MediQual unit.
Health information technology is the fastest growing segment of the $1 trillion global healthcare marketplace, and the "impressive" 11 percent combined annual growth rate is likely to continue through 2013, according to a Scientia Advisors global review released Tuesday.
Riverside Radiology Associates has renewed its licensing contract for five years for Zotec Partners’ Electronic Billing Center (EBC) billing suite, RIS and Decision Support module after it cut billing costs by more than half with the software over the past five years.
The median profit margin of U.S. hospitals increased from near zero in the third quarter of 2008 to more than 8 percent in the second quarter of 2009, according to a study published Monday by Thomson Reuters.
According to a recent survey, about three out of every four doctors feel they now have less control over the way they practice medicine than they did five years ago.
TransUnion announced the release of a new healthcare patient payment estimator at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Revenue Cycle Strategy conference in Chicago last week and will begin implementing the tool in hospitals this month.
ClaimTrust has announced that Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pa., will implement the company's InSight Denials solutions to increase billing effectiveness, improve cash flow and generate new net revenue.
Healthcare stakeholder groups have praised the House's passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act but eagerly anticipate a companion bill that could repeal the "broken physician payment formula."
When it comes to financial health, the hospital emergency department has sustained major trauma from the economy