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The long-awaited release of standard providers' identification numbers is expected within a month. The Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday outlined its plan...

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, Inc has signed a deal with the Colorado Medical Society, based in Denver, to allow the company's on-demand clinical and revenue-cycle management s...

Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) outlined last Thursday steps for what she says will cut runaway healthcare spending by one third. In a speech last Thursday at...

The federal government is considering lowering the amount of money paid to private fee-for-service Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The House Committee on Ways and Means Subco...

What does it take to successfully build a regional health information organization? It takes flexibility, with privacy and sustainability as key issues near the top of th...

GE Healthcare Financial Services and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) have announced the release of "Healthcare Payment: Goals, Trends and Strategies," the first...

A coordinated effort is under way in Florida to move more physicians to use electronic prescribing. The initiative, called ePrescribe Florida, followed a new tack in...

According to a senior policy advisor for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), this year's top Democrat healthcare agenda includes "major" expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Pr...

The nation's federal healthcare IT czar, Robert Kolodner, MD, said today that the government's entire focus for healthcare IT advancement is to improve care. Kolodner, pro...

Things aren't looking any better for the United States healthcare system since the last time it was compared with those of other industrialized nations. An update to an ongoi...