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By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | June 10, 2008
The Princeton Healthcare System has launched a fundraising campaign to help finance construction of a new $441 million Princeton University Medical Center, to be located in Plainsboro, N.J.Th...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 10, 2008
The Premier healthcare alliance, which lists 2,000 hospitals across the country as members, says the type of quality reporting that requires proprietary information, tools or methodology is too expens...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | June 09, 2008
Medical tourism and medical student debt burden and its impact on the physician shortage, are two of the hot topics to be discussed at a five-day meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | June 09, 2008
Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft Corp. are launching a pilot project to bring Microsoft's HealthVault platform together with Kaiser Permanente's personal health records for use by Kaiser employees and...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 09, 2008
Enclarity, Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif. has unveiled Provider SelectFile, a subscription service that supplies demographics, other credentials and key identifiers for specific providers to enabl...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 09, 2008
A merger two years in the making between Inova Health System and Prince William Health System was halted on Friday, with both sides citing the threat of action by the Federal Trade Commission....
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | June 06, 2008
In an effort to detect potential fraud and waste in the Medicaid program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will use data analysis services provided by Thomson Reuters.Thom...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 06, 2008
Chamberlin, Edmonds and Associates, a company that provides specialized eligibility determination services to hospitals, has been acquired The Atlanta-based company was acquired by three e...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | June 06, 2008
Walgreens has agreed to pay more than  $35 million to settle Medicare reimbursement disputes that resulted from the company allegedly switching three of its drugs from generic drugs to name brand...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | June 06, 2008
Public health departments, hospitals and other health care organizations will receive $1.1 billion in aid from the Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen their ability to respond to pub...