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By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 07, 2009
The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a plan Wednesday that includes healthcare information technology as a critical piece in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The goa...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 07, 2009
Benefitfocus has landed a contract with one of the largest health insurers on the Atlantic coast.The Charleston, S.C.-based healthcare benefits software provider announced Tuesday a deal with...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | January 07, 2009
According to a December 2008 survey conducted by the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, the state's hospitals are being hurt by the national recession, and patients are feeling t...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 06, 2009
Owens & Minor, of Richmond, Va., has signed a definitive agreement to sell is direct-to-consumer diabetes supply business to the Liberty Healthcare Group, Inc. for $63 million in cash.Pat...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 06, 2009
A developer of electronic billing and payment solutions for the healthcare industry, among others, is adding a feature that allows patients and providers to establish payment plans.Internet P...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | January 06, 2009
National health spending in 2007 was at its lowest rate of overall growth since 1998, according to a new report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS researchers said slo...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | January 06, 2009
The sour economy is expected to hit non-profit hospitals especially hard in 2009, according to a new survey from the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.A survey of roughly 800 fundraisin...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 06, 2009
AARP CEO Bill Novelli identified healthcare IT as a key initiative in his organization's work with the 111th Congress on reducing healthcare cost and boosting quality."This is not the ti...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | January 06, 2009
 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) has launched its low-cost insurance plans, available to uninsured Floridians as part of Gov. Charles Crist's chosen healthcare insurers selected to...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | January 05, 2009
Grady Memorial Hospital is considering a proposal to increase medical costs to some uninsured patients and acknowledged that it could cut off some people from free care.According to reports i...