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America's Health Insurance Plans has released a national strategy to advance improvement in U.S. healthcare quality and safety. The strategy, revealed in a 16-pa...

Reps. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) and Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) have introduced a bipartisan bill designed to help physicians afford the high cost of adopting healthcare information technology....

HealthSouth Corp. continued its efforts to shed extraneous lines Thursday, announcing that it had entered a definitive agreement to sell its diagnostic division. The sale, to Th...

Responding to industry-wide disdain for the payment methods used in determining provider reimbursements, a new report pushes an alternative model based on risk-adjusted cost assessment and quality out...

ALEXANDRIA, VA – Later this month, ChainDrugStore.net will provide pharmacy analytics to manufacturing partners, managed care organizations and pharmacy members. Manufacturin...

The U.S. Senate has voted against a bill proposing to allow the federal government to negotiate for lower Medicare drug prices. The vote comes as a disappoi...

Lighthouse1 of Minneapolis, a provider of consumer-driven healthcare benefits administration solutions, has announced a partnership with Avon, Conn.-based Evolution Benefits...

While pay-for-performance (P4P) and public quality-reporting programs may contribute to the improvement of healthcare quality, a recent study suggests that such programs might also decrease quality of...

Two large mergers of healthcare insurers were criticized this week, as healthcare provider organizations and others questioned the effect that diminished competition would have on prices and services....

States will receive varying shares of a $30 million federal grant to provide local health insurance counseling for Medicare beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced....