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The ability of the federal government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies is shaping up as the first healthcare policy hot button of 2007. On Friday, Janua...
eClinicalWorks, a Westborough, Mass.-based provider of unified EMR/PM systems, has announced that St. Luke’s Health System, which serves Idaho, Oregon and Nevada, has chosen the...
Eastman Kodak Company has announced the sale of its healthcare group to Toronto-based Onex Healthcare Holdings Inc. in a deal initially valued at $2.35 billion. Pending returns on investments, the tot...
The CSC Group of Brecksville, Ohio has announced that MemorialCare Medical Center of Huntington Beach, Calif. will be installing the company's PAPERS EDI Capture, Payment Processing,...
Congress needs to reform Medicare and Medicaid to improve their integrity and sustainability, according to a Nov. 17 report issued by the Government Accountability Office. "Absent ref...
Although the healthcare industry got a reprieve when Congress delayed a 5.1 percent Medicare physician rate cut until next year, financial experts say reductions are inevitable and providers still nee...
Provisions in the end-of-session bill passed by Congress provide a number of elements intended to stimulate the use of health savings accounts. HSA provisions added to the Ta...
Lawson offers new budgeting, planning tool ST. PAUL, MN – Lawson has announced the availability of its newest Enterprise Performance Management...
Where some providers measure their payment cycles in months, Harriet Oster does so in seconds. Oster, office manager at Lake Murray OB/GYN, has most of her claims to Blue Cross Blue S...
Healthcare spending for the year 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 Medicaid Services anno...