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The American Medical Association continues to come out swinging against the latest step in the consolidation in the health insurance market. The Chicago-based profes...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week that it will recover $371.5 million in Medicare payments made improperly last year to healthcare providers and suppliers in California,...
Early results of a pay-for-quality pilot program reveal improvements in quality of care and reductions in emergency room and hospital admissions. The preliminary results were...
Aetna and Cigna have agreed to reimburse dentist and physician members of the International Association of Dental and Medical Disciplines who provide online visits to their patients....
Community Health Systems Inc. became the largest client in IT vendor athenahealth's history when CHS decided to replace its current practice management and billing systems with an on-demand solution f...
A large medical device and equipment trade organization, as well as a two large manufacturers of supplies, have voiced qualified support for a law that would disclose companies' payments to physicians...
A new study shows that growing Washington D.C. suburbs are providing construction growth and merger opportunities for health systems. HealthLeaders-InterStudy recently reported...
Recent survey findings reveal that healthcare companies rely on acquisitions to play a contributing role in their business strategies. The study,titled M&A in Challenging Times,...
Health expenditures are still rising far faster than the rate of inflation, and that rate of increase is expected to remain steady for the next nine years, according to recent estimates by the federal...
After installing an electronic health record system, officials at CMH Regional Health System in Ohio still felt a gap in technology that was costing the hospital when it came to imaging documents - th...