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Durable medical equipment suppliers had their day in the spotlight Tuesday to present concerns that Medicare's plan to use a competitive bidding program is not working as well as it intended....

EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, something makes a lot of sense with healthcare reform. One of those moments came last month in Marietta, Ga., at the Medical Banking Institute, during a presentation by Paul Gru...

Hospitals provide economic boost to their communitiesThe value of hospitals to the communities they serve extends far beyond healthcare and plays an important role in supporting the econom...

WASHINGTON – Provider groups, reacting to uncertainty surrounding the use of national provider identifiers on claims forms, are asking the government to delay enforcing use of the numbers after...

AUGUSTA, ME – Maine is the fourth healthiest and livable state in the Union, according to the 2008 edition of Healthcare State Ratings from CQ Press. And careful planning and a wider range of pe...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Very few ambulatory surgery centers are implementing electronic health records, even as they acknowledge that paper charts are increasingly becoming antiquated and may be costi...

NEW YORK – Hospital executives have their work cut out for them as they face the prospect of filling out a revamped Form 990 next year.However, rather than waiting too long, they should...

DEARBORN, MI – The stakes for control of labor organizing in healthcare organizations grew last month after a confrontation between members of two union groups in Dearborn, Mich.The Cal...

Arizona State University (ASU) College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation has received a $700,000 grant to launch a mobile health initiative that will bring essential primary care services to unders...

AUSTIN, TX – House Bill 2015 sailed through the Texas House (144-0) and Senate (31-0) and was signed into law last year by Governor Rick Perry.Now the law – which as of Jan. 1 req...