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The Johns Hopkins Health System is acquiring Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., a move designed to boost the Baltimore-based health system's exposure in the nation's capital and give Sibley some much-needed resources and financial stability.
A stubborn recession continues to put economic pressures on hospitals, governments and the public and they coalesce on the topic of how charity care affects tax exemptions.
OTCNetwork debuts prepaid cards for MA plans for purchase of over-the-counter medications.
The Integrated Healthcare Association, which promotes quality improvement, accountability and affordability of healthcare in California, has named its top 45 performing physician organizations for 2009, based on the IHA’s statewide Pay for Performance program measures.
Healthcare organizations are using locum tenens physicians when they need to maintain services/revenue while permanent candidates are sought, according to a recent National Association of Community Health Centers Web seminar.
Peter Christensen Health Center, part of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in north-central Wisconsin, has seen a 35 percent jump in revenue over five years, thanks in part to its EHR and billing system.
New York-based Empire BlueCross BlueShield is launching a patient-centered medical home pilot in an effort to improve access to personalized and coordinated healthcare services.
Executives at Sentara Healthcare, a Norfolk, Va.-based health system, have announced they saved $3.4 million in employee healthcare coverage costs by implementing an aggressive three-year wellness program.
With an estimated 50 percent of survey respondents either skipping dental work because of the cost or not going to the dentist at all, a California- and Canada-based healthcare firm is looking to make that trip to the dentist a little easier.
Physicians looking to go it alone in this economy need all the help they can get. Wells Fargo is looking to provide that assistance.