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By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | May 19, 2008
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has inked a $179 million, seven-year contract with Unisys. The Blue Bell, Pa-based technology company will provide a new Medicaid Management Informati...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 19, 2008
The American Medical Association is countering efforts calling for the increased regulation of specialty hospitals owned by physicians.Earlier this month, the hospital industry brought a unif...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 16, 2008
A report released Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office says nursing homes and the federal agency overseeing them are falling well short of the mark.The GAO study said federal...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 16, 2008
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 in April by Wachovia C...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 15, 2008
Provider organizations peppered a House small business committee during a Wednesday hearing with concerns about the Recovery Audit Contractor program.Witnesses provided their views on the progra...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | May 15, 2008
National Health Partners, Inc., a provider of discount healthcare membership programs, and the Polish National Alliance, the largest ethnically-based fraternal insurance society in the United States,...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 15, 2008
A report released Tuesday by the Aberdeen Group puts more than 40 information technology vendors with healthcare products among the top 100 most influential technology companies over the past five yea...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 15, 2008
A subsidiary of a large banking firm is introducing a new tool to its medical claims processing service intended to facilitate claims payment posting.JP Morgan Healthcare Solutions on Wednesd...
By Chelsey Ledue | 01:00 am | May 14, 2008
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 years....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 14, 2008
A survey last year of 450 major employers by Hewitt Associates found that close to half either offer or plan to offer incentives to employees to participate in health- or wellness-related initiatives....