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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has scheduled a series of national provider calls that will offer an overview of ICD-10 and how it differs from ICD-9-CM.The presentations will...
Misys has secured sufficient funding requirements to satisfy the terms of an upcoming merger of its Raleigh, N.C.-based healthcare unit with Allscripts.Officials of the London-based banking a...
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Kerry Weems announced the 2009 Medicare prescription drug and Medicare Advantage plan options Thursday.Weems said 97 percent...
The winning projects were chosen from 184 funding applications submitted by state and local health departments. Only the 62 state, local and territorial public health departments currently receiving f...
Managed care tactics are changing these days and healthcare institutions need to be vigilant when dealing with denied claims, said an industry expert at the Maine Chapter of the Healthcare Financial M...
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose to $12,680 annually for family coverage this year Ð up 5 percent from last year, according to an annual study released Sept. 23 by the Kaiser...
Tuesday's announced merger of two competing electronic medical record vendors, ChartOne and HealthPort, has also produced a new company.ChartOne officials announced on Tuesday that eWebHealth...
Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., has agreed to pay the United States $3.85 million, plus interest, to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare."(The) settlement demonstra...
A federal jury this week convicted the owner and operator of Pacific City Group, Inc., a Los Angeles-based durable medical equipment company, of defrauding the Medicare program of more than $1.1 milli...
Riverside Health System, based in Newport News, Va., will contribute $1 million to fund a health insurance program covering 1,500 to 2,000 low income, small business employees.About 15 percen...