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By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 12, 2008
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $364.9 million contract for phase IV construction of the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System's new 150-acre medical campus, the largest construct...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | November 12, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has revised compensation requirements for sales agents and brokers who sell Medicare Advantage and prescription drug benefit plan options.&quo...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 11, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama's plan to extend healthcare to uninsured Americans will be beneficial to hospitals, medical centers and hospital equipment makers, according to Moody's Investors Service....
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | November 11, 2008
The use of diagnostic imaging tests is rising rapidly and contributing to the increasing cost of healthcare, concludes a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | November 11, 2008
The campaign is done, and the pressure to reform healthcare has begun, with an emphasis on information technology and on health insurance for children.A group of organizations that includes t...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 11, 2008
American Medical Association members discussed how to enact permanent Medicare physician payment reform at the organization's semi-annual policy-making meeting Monday."Seniors and physic...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | November 10, 2008
Infotech Global, Inc., a Piscataway, N.J.-based bio-informatics technology firm whose ORBIT portfolio includes payer, member and provider portals, wellness management, electronic data capture a...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | November 10, 2008
The current economy is projected to have a negative impact on imaging sales.This according to Millennium Research Group's "US Markets for Diagnostic Imaging Systems 2009" report and it...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 10, 2008
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose 0.22 percent in October to a seasonally adjusted 4,686,500 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week.Employment at hospitals grew 10,...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 10, 2008
The Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration has signed a five-year, $44 million deal with Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., to administer a Third Party Liability program for the state's Medicai...