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CLEVELAND – Pricing transparency and the increasing rise of self-pay are making significant impacts on cash flow management for hospitals and large physician practices, experts say....

Premiums increase at slowest pace in eight years Health insurance premiums have increased at the slowest pace in eight years, according to a new report published by the Kaiser Famil...

WESTBORO, MA – Activity in the business analytics market picked up a notch last month with the announcement that Applix, Inc. will be acquired by Ottawa-based business intelligence provider...

President Bush and Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt fielded questions this morning on reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which expires in 10 days. The...

SPRINGFIELD, PA – Hospitals are continuing to look for ways to improve supply purchasing, and they’re beginning to rely more heavily on analytic services provided by group purchasing organ...

AUGUSTA, ME – Dana Connors, president of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, was looking for a way to help member businesses deal with the staggering need for and cost of healthcare. He found a...

Medplexus launches Saas-based suite of solutions MedPlexus, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of Internet-based administrative, financial and clinical software and services for phy...

House issues bill to speed up Part D payments Community pharmacies have been plagued with slow and low reimbursement under Medicare Part D, according to sponsors of legislation to spe...

NEW ROCHELLE, NY – New York’s Westchester County Department of Health is ditching an eight-page, paper-based application that residents have filled out to enroll for public health...

ALPHARETTA, GA – One company’s announcement last month that it is planning an initial public offering of stock is expected to throw a new wrinkle into the competitive group purchasing mark...