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SAN DIEGO – Three Florida not-for-profit hospitals are reportedly saving more than $1 million by using Concerro’s automated nurse staffing solution to fill open shifts.The shift f...
WASHINGTON – Provider organizations peppered a House committee with concerns about the Recovery Audit Contractor program during a meeting in May.Witnesses provided their views on the p...
CHICAGO – Consumers and insurance brokers are finding that the Internet is the medium of choice for gathering information on the complex individual health plan market. This is an important...
NEW YORK – The credit crunch appears to be affecting hospitals’ ability to raise capital and finance capital expenditures, especially for big-ticket items.A research report issued...
WASHINGTON – Despite growing concern from the durable medical equipment industry and Congress, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has taken the next step in its plan to implement a...
Microsoft Corp. officials announced that the company's HealthVault Be Well Fund has increased its funding to $4.5 million after receiving nearly 200 proposals from leading academic and research health...
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has turned its attention to changing the Medicare hospice wage index.Among other planned changes, CMS announced in late April...
NEW YORK - Commonwealth Fund researchers have created a plan that would insure 44 million of the estimated 48 million uninsured Americans in 2008 and save approximately $1.6 trillion over the next 10...
Express Scripts, one of the nation's largest pharmacy benefits management companies, has reached a settlement agreement with the state of Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia and 28 other states res...
WASHINGTON – Various physician organizations told a House panel last week that they anticipate a significant number of their memberships dropping from Medicare participation should the 10.6 perc...