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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 22, 2007
With the distribution of national provider identifier numbers likely to occur next month, provider organizations are registering protests about the release of data Earlier this month, the Am...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 20, 2007
Sutter Health has pumped $1 million into the California Regional Health Information Organization, known as CalRHIO. The grant is part of a multi-million-dollar commitment by the healthcare system to f...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 19, 2007
Louisville, Ky.-based SHPS, a provider of health advocacy and health benefits solutions, has announced an expanded agreement with The EPOCH Group, one of the nation's largest third pa...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 18, 2007
Healthcare IT standards organization HL7 released today a functional profile for the Legal Electronic Health Record System. HL7 leaders say the new profile will help healthcare organizations reduce co...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 18, 2007
Responding to concerns that private fee-for-service plans for Medicare are not being accurately marketed, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a suspension in marketing for the p...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | June 14, 2007
A report ranking all 50 states on how well they deliver healthcare estimates that bringing lower-scoring states up to higher-scoring states' standards could save 90,000 lives annually, insure 22 milli...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | June 14, 2007
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission this week urged Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to adopt and refine various methodologies for determining provider reimbursements and...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | June 14, 2007
A new bill introduced in Pennsylvania's House would make the state pay medical students' loan debt for graduates who agree to practice medicine in the state for 10 years....
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 13, 2007
As consumers take on more responsibility for the costs of their own care, they're going to demand more information about what healthcare services will cost them, according to the results of a study re...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 13, 2007
Shareholders of Triad Hospitals Inc. have approved the company's acquisition by Community Health Systems Inc. Under terms of the merger agreement, Triad shareholders will receiv...