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Employers who want to contain healthcare costs should consider implementing innovative benefit designs, said a study released yesterday by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)....

A leading Israeli HMO specializing in healthcare value and quality systems announced Feb. 20 that it has been selected to help build a new national healthcare information technology infrastructure for...

The Foresight Corporation of Dublin, Ohio, a provider of business intelligence and transaction automation applications for healthcare markets, has announced that it has repurchased al...

Congress saw students, physicians and other healthcare industry stakeholders lobby for expanded coverage of the uninsured last week as part of the American Medical Association's national health advoca...

At one of the many briefings, congressional hearings and non-profit forums held this month in Washington on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) spoke...

Many Medicare patients are not discussing with their physicians important aspects of their prescription medications, including how much they cost. That finding is outlined in a new st...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday plans for reporting physician performance to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS plans to make...

SimplexityMD, a Houston-based disruptive medical device technology and new venture company, has added OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. to its portfolio of client compani...

A newly formed consortium of U.S. businesses on Feb. 8 announced the release of a guide designed to help employers purchase healthcare that supports the Department of Health and Human Services' plan t...

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) has proposed selling the Texas lottery at a projected $14 billion to fund a program that includes widening healthcare coverage to the uninsured and creating a trust fund for...