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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...

WASHINGTON – A recent study released by the Government Accountability Office encourages the federal government to more closely watch spending under Medicare’s alternative HMO care plan, th...

WASHINGTON – The book appears complete on the federal government’s rules to limit the possibility of financial conflict of interest by physicians who refer patients to their own facilities...

Contributed by Sherry Elliott and Leslie Fox ACCORDING TO THE American Medical Group Association’s 2006 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey, physician co...

RALEIGH, NC – Eight healthcare organizations in Wake County, N.C., are collaborating in hopes of improving coordination of care for their uninsured residents, thus providing better quality and c...

Aetna Inc. wants to give healthcare providers a way to connect directly to the insurer for the transmission of batch and real-time transactions. The service, called Aetna EDI...

CINCINNATI – Bloomington, Ind., and Clark and Champaign counties in Ohio announced the launch of their community health information exchanges, or HIEs, in September. By leveragi...

WASHINGTON – Experts at a recent policy briefing debated how an expansion of the State Children’s Health Program might harm the private health insurance industry. With curren...

Contributed by Linc Smith IN APRIL, states, communities and advocacy groups across the nation again marked “Cover the Uninsured Week,” an important reminder that nearly 45 mi...

NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO, my father was hospitalized for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in a Chicago-area hospital. Not that I’m dating myself, but he was a patient in a four-person ward for nearl...