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A new report from the Association of American Medical Colleges says the United States is likely to face a shortfall of 124,000 physicians by 2025.According to Michael Dill and Edward Salsberg...

The uncertainty hanging over Wall Street these days hasn't stopped investors from forming a new commercial finance firm focused on healthcare.MidCap Financial, based in Bethesda, Md., announc...

NOW THAT HEALTHCARE is beset with the same troubles as the rest of the economy, it’s official: No place is insulated from the Wall Street collapse.“Even though hospitals’ fi...

BOSTON – An estimated 49 percent of physicians plan to stop practicing or reduce their number of patients over the next three years, according to a survey conducted by The Physicians’ Foun...

A western Pennsylvania hospital has agreed to pay $1.9 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that alleged the hospital submitted reimbursement claims to Medicare that gre...

Real-time adjudication – a long-sought goal of physician practices – allows for the analysis of payments and rejections on the spot before a patient even leaves the office. In an...

MADISON WI – The Wisconsin Council for Medical Education and Workforce has launched a campaign to retain Wisconsin-trained physicians and bring back those with family or educational ties to the...

For the fifth consecutive year, Bridges to Excellence, which measures and rewards physicians for delivering high-quality care, will pay bonuses to doctors in Massachusetts. Rewards paid to da...

SAN FRANCISCO – At a time when health plans are starting their own banks and banks are considering setting up their own healthcare payment services, Canopy Financial is offering itself to the ma...

WASHINGTON – Now that Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States and the Democrats have strengthened their control of Congress, what can hospitals expect from the federal gover...