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Aetna PUTS patient safety language into contracts Aetna, of Hartford, Conn., has incorporated language from the Leapfrog Group’s “Never Events” policy in its hospital co...

THERE’S STILL A LOT of paper scheduling in hospitals today, according to Jared Peterson, vice president of research operations for KLAS Enterprises. Price point, cultural change an...

CHICAGO – The American Medical Association (AMA) is pushing for a permanent fix to a bill that has taken away a three-year medical loan deferment for medical students serving their residency....

WellCare Health Plans Inc., a managed care company, named a new executive chairman and president/CEO late last week. Charles G. Berg was named executive chairman and Heath Schie...

SAN ANTONIO, TX – South Texas Total Eye Care, a physician-owned, independent physicians association (IPA) providing eye care for more than 13,000 members, has implemented Plexis Healthcare Syste...

Number of retail health clinics nearing 1,000 A survey of retail clinics by the healthcare list division of Verispan, of Yardley, Pa., listed 921 clinics. The clinics typically are staffe...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Healthy Indiana Plan, the state’s plan to cover uninsured resident adults between the ages of 19-64, went into effect January 1 with nearly 9,500 applications submitted....

OAKLAND, CA – The Agency for Healthcare Research Quality has awarded $600,000 to Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research to continue its heart disease prevention and management stud...

SALT LAKE CITY – Officials at AdvancedMD, which provides practice management and medical billing software for physicians, figure they’ve doubled in size and profits each year for the past...

A state senate committee soundly defeated a move to advance a proposal for healthcare reform to the state's senate for a full vote. The Senate Health Committee voted 10-1 to halt the progre...