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Responding to evidence that beneficiaries need protection from predatory marketing practices, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday toughened standards for selling Medicare Advant...

St. Francis Hospital & Health Center was preparing to close its doors, until MSMC Investors LLC stepped forward with a proposition to acquire the hospital.SSM Health Care, which owns and...

Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., a hospital management company in southern California, has taken measures to implement public inpatient and outpatient regulatory reporting requirements in nine of its...

HOUSTON – The processes of coding and charge capture are often complicated, time-consuming, paper-intensive tasks more suited to administrators than clinicians. To make those tasks easi...

Physicians Healthcare Management Group, Inc., or Phyhealth, a developer of health maintenance organizations, has signed an agreement with Argus Dental, based in Tampa, Fla., to provide dental services...

ATLANTA – Georgia’s lawmakers have passed House Bill 977, which Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to sign into law any day now. The bill, the first of its kind in the nation, exempts...

PSS world medical sells shares of AthenahealthPSS World Medical has sold a portion of its shares of athenahealth, Inc., a Watertown, Mass.-based provider of Internet-based IT and business...

Arizona healthcare consumers can now compare hospitals' charges for specific inpatient services through the Web site AZHospitalChoice. Launched May 7 by the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare As...

Officials of Washington County, Tenn. broke ground Wednesday on the $121 million construction of Franklin Woods Community Hospital, the first certified "green" building and the first "g...

WAKEFIELD, MA – Short of bringing an accountant into the operating room, hospitals don’t have many options for easily and accurately determining OR revenues and cost consumption.P...