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Humana Inc., one of the nation's largest health insurers, announced Monday that it had agreed to buy UnitedHealth Group's Las Vegas-based Medicare Advantage business for $185 million....

Medicare is moving closer to a prospective payment system for the dialysis centers that supply ongoing care to beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease, or ESRD. A report to Cong...

Eclipsys Corporation officials announced Monday morning at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2008 conference that they have acquired Enterprise Performance Systems, Inc., a v...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing new rules that would give states flexibility in designing their own Medicaid programs, with the hopes of aligning the federal-state programs w...

MedAssets, Inc. of Atlanta has entered into a new multi-year agreement with the Bon Secours Health System of Marriottsville, Md. to expand its relationship by implementing a suite of MedAssets...

By automating invoice processing, the Mayo Clinic hopes to rid itself of the costs and errors associated with manual processing. Mayo Clinic has chosen to use Brainware's intelligent...

The city attorney for Los Angeles has reacted quickly to citizen complaints filed on a new Web site, filing suit on Thursday against health insurer Health Net Inc. Los Angeles C...

Merge Healthcare Inc. has laid out a game plan for economic survival, including debt or equity financing, the sale of selected assets and ongoing cost saving initiatives. The Milwa...

Spending on hospital and health facility construction is rising at a record pace and could exceed $60 billion annually by 2010, according to a report released Tuesday. Construction...

The HLTH Corp. and the WebMD subsidiary in which it holds a majority stake have announced a definitive deal to merge. Under the agreement announced Thursday, HLTH, which owns an...