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Healthcare promises to be a huge campaign issue in the 2008 election, political advisors for both major parties say. But well before then, President Bush wants to leave a positive legacy, callin...
Contributed by Andy Draper, senior vice president of business development and strategy for Bluegate Corp., a Houston-based provider of healthcare IT solutions. As a result of the Sta...
WASHINGTON – Healthcare spending in 2005 slowed for the third consecutive year and is growing at a rate that’s comparable with the rest of the economy, the Centers for Medicare and Medicai...
RALEIGH, NC – The Center for Community Health Leadership, an initiative sponsored by Misys Healthcare Systems, has selected the city of Greater New Haven, Conn. as the first recipient of a grant...
Tax credits for Americans buying their own insurance, leveraged federal funding to states with programs to cover the uninsured and a plea to save Medicare and Medicaid were the driving points of an am...
Hospitals across the country are outsourcing more specialized patient services, such as dialysis, diagnostic imaging and hospice care, according to the results of a study released Jan. 22....
A 78-year-old woman living in Michigan may pay $4,113 in annual out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs covered under that state's least expensive Medicare drug plan. A woman of the same age in Ohi...
Salt Lake City-based 3M Health Information Systems has added a module to its 3M Coding and Reimbursement System to enable medical necessity validation at the point of c...
A diverse coalition of advocacy groups, employers, payers, and healthcare associations has put forward what it hailed as an "unprecedented" and "historic" plan to provide health coverage to the nation...
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced Wednesday that 175 companies -up from 100 in December- have now pledged to abide by President Bush's transparency plan for advancing...