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A Take Care Health Clinic has opened at a Walgreens store in Rockford, Ill., and three more retail health clinics are expected to open in Rockford this year.The Rockford-based clinic is a wal...
NEW YORK – A study of the prevalence of conditions in the U.S. employer-insured population provides a glimpse of the capabilities of large-scale analysis of claims databases with de-identified r...
Effective June 1, The American Academy of Family Physicians' $8 million practice redesign initiative, TransforMED, will become a limited liability corporation, wholly owned by the AAFP. Trans...
Healthcare providers who submit claims this week will be crossing their fingers that the switch to national provider identifiers will go smoothly and that reimbursements will follow without any disrup...
According to the latest Wall Street Journal.com/Harris Interactive healthcare study, retail-based health clinics still rank high with users due in part to their convenience, quality of care and cost....
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced a new plan Wednesday to improve patient safety and quality of care by sharing Medicare patient data on drug and medical devi...
Medtronic Spine LLC, the corporate successor to Kyphon Inc., will pay the United States $75 million to settle allegations that it caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, according to the Ju...
The Tenet Healthcare Corporation will offer patients at its hospitals the option of paying their bills online. Dallas-based Tenet, which operates 53 hospitals in 12 states, has deployed Onlin...
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched the first national print advertising campaign focused on the quality of care available in hospitals.The ads, placed by Centers for Med...
The Premier healthcare alliance has launched an initiative to address energy costs by increasing the use of renewable energy and reducing the industry's carbon footprint. Premier's initiative...