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Twenty-seven states will look for new ways to improve the efficiency, economy and quality of their Medicaid programs as Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has awarded the first $103 m...

Report: Hospitals to see extra $300M in revenues American hospitals are expected to find an additional $300 million in net patient revenues in 2007, as more than 1,000 additional...

Children’s hospitals ask Congress to save SCHIP Last month, 35 regional coalitions led by children’s hospitals, Catholic hospitals and other healthcare organizations c...

WASHINGTON – The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched the Ambulatory Safety and Quality Grant Initiative, with a potential for granting as much as $25.8 million for healthcare...

WALTHAM, MA – Tenet Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest hospital chains, is paying $900 million to resolve charges that it had cheated the government by overbilling Medicare and paying...

OAKLAND, CA – The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan is pushing for stricter and fairer rules to cover cancellations of individual health policies. Kaiser is in discussio...

OAKLAND, CA – Kaiser Permanente has been selling its health savings accounts in California since August, but the product rollout only became effective on January 1. During th...

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has launched another piece of the Bush administration’s value-driven healthcare plan to expand transparency in cost and quality...

A friend and I were discussing a plan to overhaul Maine’s school system, reducing the number of districts from more than 400 to 26. Even though we’re both skeptical of the promised $29...

The latest results of Healthcare Finance News’ NewsMonitor poll show that nearly twice as many respondents predict 2007 will produce a better bottom line than 2006. In January, we ask...