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WASHINGTON – Criticized for allowing Medicare providers to abuse the tax system to the tune of more than $1.3 billion, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is answering back....
INDIANAPOLIS – WellPoint’s pharmacy benefit manager is offering financial incentive to its members in seven additional states for the latest generic-drug addition to its GenericSelect prog...
CMS ISSUES FINAL RULE ON MEDICARE BIDDING PROGRAM The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule to implement a new competitive bidding program in Medic...
SAN FRANCISCO – Practice Fusion, Inc., an electronic healthcare vendor launched last August, recently announced that it will make use of Google’s AdSense program to help sponsor free elect...
ABILENE, TX – A physician-owned specialty hospital closed last month after it became the center of controversy when one of its patients died after experiencing a medical emergency that required...
ACCURO HEALTHCARE AQUIRES WOODMOOR GROUP Accuro Healthcare Solutions, Inc. of Dallas has acquired The Woodmoor Group, inc., a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of Web-based accounts receiv...
Picture archiving and communications systems have moved mainstream in North America and Europe. The imaging systems, once considered pricey and cumbersome for clinicians to u...
GLENDALE, AZ – In healthcare, unlike other industries, business process management (BPM) covers two different areas, business processes and clinical workflow. With both, the desired outcome is t...
Healthcare consumers using online resources to compare and choose physicians now have the option of basing their decisions on whether a certain doctor has paid a malpractice settlement. ...
WASHINGTON – Nearly one-third of American health consumers are intolerant of even the slightest inaccuracies in reporting physician performance ratings, a recent study found. Matthew Davi...