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Physicians are not as likely as once thought to leave their practices due to spikes in malpractice premiums, according to a new Harvard study that counted procedures rather than polled physicians....
The Authentidate Holding Corp. of Berkeley Heights, N.J., a vendor of secure enterprise workflow management applications, has announced that American HomePatient, Inc., one of the nat...
WASHINGTON - If Medicare is a good thing, then why not expand it? So say Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Rep. John Dingell (D-...
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are continuing to ratchet up the pressure on specialty hospitals, requiring them to improve their ability to treat patients with emergen...
Changes in Medicare contained in a massive proposed federal rule will result in nearly $25 billion in reductions in hospital payments over five years, a national advocacy group is charging....
Congress’ last-minute deferral of a 5 percent cut to Medicare reimbursements last year means physicians may face up to a 10 percent cut in 2008, the Congressional Budget Office has warned....
Trustees for the nation’s Medicare program this week issued a bleak report on the long-term financial health of the federal program. Because it is...
More than nine million Cigna HealthCare plan members will be able to manage their healthcare on their personal computers when the national carrier releases its latest online healthcare tool...
A real-time survey taken yesterday at a panel session of the Fourth Annual World Health Care Congress in the District of Columbia revealed that 69 percent of attendees feel the federal governmen...
Atlanta-based MedAssets, Inc. has announced an agreement to acquire XactiMed, a provider of Web-based revenue cycle technologies and services to the healthcare indust...