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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has chosen to implement the Collaborative Care Management platform from MEDecision, a Pennsylvania provider of software, services and clinical content to health...

SAN DIEGO – Hospitals probably will be rushing to get ready for the significant changes expected to be included in the government’s final rule for Medicare’s inpatient prospec...

CARMICHAEL, CA – A study of primary care physicians practicing complementary and alternative medicine has shown greater reduction of clinical utilization and cost than primary care physicians us...

WASHINGTON – In its letter last month to top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services, the American Medical Association detailed “serious concerns” about the dis...

WASHINGTON – The Congressional Budget Office has issued a Medicare spending report that provides new insight to the relationship between physician compensation levels and patient volume....

SAN DIEGO – A financial services firm and a healthcare services and technology company are partnering to offer an integrated set of claim and payment processing solutions and plan to targ...

HARRISBURG, PA – A new bill introduced in Pennsylvania’s House would have the state pay the balances of medical students’ loans for graduates who agree to practice medicine in t...

The world of strategic planning in healthcare has become more complex, with concepts such as “scenario planning,” “game theory” and “nonlinear analysis” being discu...

PLANO, TX – Shareholders of Triad Hospitals Inc. last month approved the company’s acquisition by Community Health Systems Inc. Under terms of the merger agreement, Triad shareho...

Workplace options unveils increased risk HRA Workplace Options, a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of work-life employee benefits, is unveiling a health risk assessment (HRA) to hel...