Diana Manos

Practice Fusion, a company that provides free online electronic health records to physicians, announced last week it will partner with Physician Services, Inc. (PSI) of California and Azalea Health In...

A new report by the Government Accountability Office questions some $90 million in payments to federal contractors under the Medicare Part D prescription drug program....

A General Accounting Office report yesterday showed that adult coverage under the State Children's Health Insurance Program is causing an undue burden on some states. ...

Congress used special methods over the past two days to approve a bill that would defer a 10 percent Medicare payment cut for doctors scheduled to begin Jan. 1. The Medicare, Medi...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill today continue to wrangle over a compromise in 2008 spending that would be acceptable to President Bush. The bill would allow more than $6 million for telehealth projects and...

Small pharmacies say they are threatened by a new federal law to take effect in January that could cause many of them to close, according to Charles Sewell, senior vice president of the National Commu...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday that 42.5 million U.S. residents of all ages were uninsured in the first half of 2007. There was no significant change in the percentage...

The debate heated up yesterday over the future of e-prescribing as it relates to controlled substances. Many proponents of e-prescribing say adoption could be more widespread if doctors weren't so enc...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urged Congress yesterday to include a requirement for doctors to use electronic health records as part of any proposed Medicare physician payment...