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Experts disagree over the likelihood of success to be derived from the healthcare reform plans made by presidential candidates Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).With h...
National retail pharmacy chain Walgreens has paid the United States government and four participating states $9.9 million to resolve allegations of falsely billing the Medicaid program.Walgre...
Medicaid enrollment is up and state budgets are down, making for some tough times in state Medicaid programs, according to an annual Kaiser Family Foundation Medicaid report released Monday....
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced $36 million in new grant programs to 28 states to help senior citizens and veterans remain independent and to support people with Alzheim...
MaineCare doesn't have liberal eligibility and people don't move in and out of the state based upon benefits supplied by the program, but it covers a high percentage of Maine's over-65 population....
Medi-CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, a not-for-profit healthcare insurer, has signed a three-year, multi-million dollar contract with Andover, Mass.-based technology company CGI Group for business p...
A new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) claims that the healthcare platform of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) may threaten healthcare coverage for millions....
Congress has approved $20 million for a new lung cancer research program at the Department of Defense. The program, entitled the Peer Reviewed Lung Cancer Research Program, will be administered and fu...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week its approval of the first new hospital accreditation organization in more than 30 years.The decision allows DNV Healt...
Henry Schein Medical Systems, a Boardman, Ohio-based provider of practice management (PM) and electronic medical records (EMR) systems, has announced that Advanced Medical Management of Baltimo...