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WASHINGTON – Advocacy groups are applauding Rep. Pete Stark’s (D-Calif.) proposal to protect Medicare beneficiaries from marketing practices that he deems “propaganda.”...

Reps. Nancy Boyda (D-Kan.) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) introduced a bill July 24 to protect rural pharmacies from potential financial disaster. Medicaid reim...

Less than a month after withdrawing its request for a proposed initial public offering of common stock, Picis, Inc. explained that decision with a new financing agreement and a purchase that moves the...

British banking and healthcare firm Misys plc has announced the sale of two segments of its American-based healthcare unit to focus on the ambulatory care market. The c...

Indianapolis-based Zotec Partners, which provides medical billing services and licensed software to hospital-based physician specialty practices, has announced its merger with...

Healthcare costs are not just a major concern in the United States, according to a report published in Health Affairs. Healthcare is responsible for annually driving more than 150 million people world...

Providers should not procrastinate using National Provider Identifiers, according to speakers at Thursday's Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange NPI Forum....

The bipartisan Senate Finance Committee overwhelmingly passed a proposal to renew and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Thursday. The committee's 17-...

Everyone involved in discussions about healthcare reform has to stop talking about who pays, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett told the audience at a chronic care summit on Tuesday. "We all pay in the long...

Maine physicians stand to lose about $27 million in Medicare reimbursements by 2016 - a relatively low figure compared to the losses pending in other states. New York, for instance, could lose $489 mi...