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Seattle-based OCS has announced the release of The Home Health Financial Monitor, a collection of financial reporting and analysis products for home healthcare executives. Among the p...
Sen. John McCain ( R-Ariz.) joined the ranks of presidential hopefuls on both sides of the aisle who are coming up to bat on what pollsters have determined is the nation's second most important domest...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on Oct. that 11 it will conduct a home health pay-for-performance (P4P) demonstration that will be a precursor to a permanent nationwide ho...
Palisades Medical Center executives overreacted when they suspended doctors and nurses who took a sneak peek at movie and TV star George Clooney's medical records during his recent stay at the hospita...
As employers pursue various approaches to save on healthcare spending, wellness programs are increasingly being tried. However, even though they're expanding offerings beyond traditional wellness appr...
Voluntary employee benefit associations, or VEBAs, have been around since the late 1920s, but the size of General Motors' contribution to the healthcare trusts for the United Auto Workers, or UAW, is...
Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, Inc. is looking to better connect its customers with health plans, and believes ConnectYourCare, LLC will do the trick. St. Louis-based Ex...
Hospitals and healthcare organizations assuming they still have until May 23 to transition to using the National Provider Identifier (NPI) on Medicare claims now have less time than they thought....
Ingenix, a healthcare IT company based in Eden Prairie, Minn. , yesterday released its fourth annual report on the "Top 200 Coding Hospitals in the U.S. " The report ranks hospitals by the completenes...
They're calling it a "friendly takeover," but SAP's announcement that it will buy rival IT firm Business Objects has some analysts scratching their heads. The two major players...