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The House introduced legislation Wednesday to help small business provide health insurance to their employees. The bipartisan Cooperative for Healthcare Options to Improve Coverage for Employ...

HONOLULU – Both members of the Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), part of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and non-members will be able to access online care services through Amer...

TAMPA, FL – According to the Centers for Disease Control, an estimated $75 billion in direct medical expenditures was attributable to obesity in 2003, and annual hospital costs related to overwe...

The push to make healthcare more consumer-friendly has reached into yet another staple of everyday life: The cell phone.The development of Apple’s new iPhone, whose 3G version was laun...

DALLAS – Healthvision is setting its sights on the Canadian market with the acquisition of MediSolution, Ltd.’s healthcare unit.In a deal announced July 16, the Dallas-based provi...

Executive search firms form strategic allianceTwo of the nation’s leading healthcare executive search firms have formed a strategic alliance. CES Partners Ltd. and Hersher Associates...

With a depressed economy and already strained state budgets, a House panel on Tuesday considered extending emergency federal assistance to state Medicaid programs.The House Energy and Commerc...

Eight Iowa hospitals would be given better treatment by the Medicare program and be put in a stronger position to provide healthcare services under legislation introduced Tuesday by Sen. Charles Grass...

According to a recent report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute, medical cost trends in the private sector will drop from 9.9 percent in 2008 to 9.6 p...

WAYNE, PA – The way David St. Clair sees it, MEDecision’s merger agreement with the Health Care Service Corporation, announced in June, couldn’t have come at a better time.T...