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Despite recent survey findings that show 80 percent of the 24 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D are satisfied with the program, the Senate Finance Committee has concerns that vulnerable low-...
Pay-for-performance programs may be ineffective in motivating physician quality improvement because they're too generic and stingy. A new study published in th...
Benefitfocus of Charleston, S.C. has selected 2007 Data Warehouse software from York, Pa.-based ProfitBase to further enhance the company's Business Intelligence prog...
Even with a contingency plan in place to give the healthcare industry time to implement national provider identifiers, the federal government is keeping the pressure on to move the industry to adoptio...
Donations of information technology and supporting services to not-for-profit healthcare providers will not be seen as kickbacks that could jeopardize providers' not-for-profit status, a memorandum is...
A cooperative effort between federal agencies and state and local enforcement personnel has netted about 40 arrests in south Florida, as a recently launched Medicare "strike force" begins to target fr...
The number of companies participating in President Bush's plan for value-driven healthcare has skyrocketed from 175 in January to more than 775. Department of Health and Huma...
Pay for performance is not a trial program, as far as the federal government is concerned. According to the head of the federal P4P, Thomas Valuck, MD, director of t...
Perceptive Software of Shawnee, Kan. has announced that Orlando Regional Healthcare in Florida has deployed the company's ImageNow document management suite in its accounts payable de...
Many patients who report that they have been affected by malpractice or medical errors haven't had their lives jeopardized by medical professionals, but instead are upset about service delivery proble...