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WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in October that it will conduct a home health pay-for-performance (P4P) demonstration that will be a precursor to a permanent...
WASHINGTON – Seven companies that market private fee-for-service plans for Medicare have received permission from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to begin marketing the plans to ben...
CONSHOHOCKEN, PA – Some predictions of rapid growth in healthcare haven’t panned out. But rosy guesses on the growth of convenience care clinics seem to be fully on track. Last mont...
WASHINGTON – Hospitals and healthcare organizations who think they have until May 23 to transition to the National Provider Identifier (NPI) on Medicare claims now have less time than they thoug...
Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) outlined her plan for universal healthcare at an Oct. 18 presidential forum on healthcare held by the Kaiser Family Foundation....
Nuance Communications of Burlington, Mass. has signed an agreement to acquire Vocada, Inc. of Dallas, a provider of critical test result management solutions....
Do process management approaches that work in other industries have an impact in a healthcare environment? Meadows Regional Medical Center has become a believer. Making use of an inno...
The House investigated yesterday the impact of proposed antitrust legislation that, if passed, could impact the way community pharmacies negotiate for drug pricing on the back end....
A bid to override President Bush's veto of a bill to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program failed in the House today, as override supporters fell at least 12 votes shy of a two-thirds m...
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Robert Casey (D-Pa.) yesterday introduced legislation to prevent the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service from making further cuts to home healthcare providers' re...