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Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the program's Part D prescription drug benefit are saving an average of $1,200 per year on medications, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced,...

President Bush's budget proposal for fiscal year 2008 released yesterday calls for $70 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over five years....

Inteck, a Denver-based information technology consulting firm, has announced that it has expanded its services with the introduction of a Receivables Management System and Vendor Mana...

Alegent Health, a nine-hospital system with hospitals in and around Omaha, is one of the first systems in the nation to provide consumers with accurate estimates of the cost of their care, factoring i...

Triad Hospitals Inc. has entered into a buyout deal with an estimated value of $6.4 billion. The acquisition involves affiliates of two private equity firms, the company announc...

Expenditures on healthcare in the United States, which currently outpace the economy and workers' earnings, will continue to rise rapidly over the next decade unless there are major healthcare policy...

Three major U.S. automakers have joined the growing list of companies that have pledged to promote President Bush's plan for value-driven healthcare, the Department of Health and Human Services announ...

Next May, providers will begin using the new NPI, a 10-digit number to be used in all healthcare billing procedures mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. NPIs are int...

VFA, Inc., a Boston-based provider of end-to-end solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management, has announced that Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has selected...

At the Families USA Health Action conference last Thursday, 2008 presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) called for universal healthcare in the U.S. by no later than 2012....