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Under two whistleblower settlement agreements, the Merck Company will pay more than $650 million to the U.S. Department of Justice and 49 individual states. The pharmaceutical manu...

According to a new report, Arizona isn't embracing pay-for-performance programs as initially envisioned because the state's major insurer has failed to offer them. Analysts believe that will make it h...

CGI Federal, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fairfax, Va.-based CGI Group, Inc., has been awarded a $27 million, two-year contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services'...

A recent survey shows that gastroenterologists are well on their way to reporting quality data to the federal government, and they use or plan to use software to do it....

Initiatives proposed at the state level for healthcare reform are likely to be key tests for new approaches that eventually could be implemented at the federal level....

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released plans for improving care in nursing homes and other facilities for its beneficiaries. The plans come by way of CMS'...

Technology and medical advances are helping improve the effectiveness of care, but they have also added significantly to the price tag. That inexorable rise in cost could be stemme...

Selling tactics aimed at getting senior citizens to buy Medicare private plans came under attack yesterday in a congressional hearing investigating how sales personnel were handling their responsibili...

A new trend in using software-as-a-service, or SaaS, can not only help healthcare facilities save money on their software applications, but it can help free up information technology specialists to fo...

Medical costs for employers around the world are expected to increase over the next five years, according to a poll conducted by a global consulting firm. The Watson Wyatt World...