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Oakwood Healthcare has taken steps to provide transparency in reporting procedure pricing by making it available to patients through its Web site. The site will provide pricing information for surgeri...

Philips appears to have completed its Christmas shopping with a planned $5.1 billion purchase of home medical equipment supplier Respironics. The acquisition - the fourth in recent weeks for the Dutch...

Emdeon Business Services has bolstered its healthcare portfolio with the purchase of IXT Solutions, a provider of integrated patient billing and payment solutions. Both companies a...

Officials at Baltimore-based Harbor Hospital announced this morning that the facility has inked a $3.1 million revenue cycle management contract to streamline administrative workflow, allowing its phy...

Investment in a healthcare incentive, decision-making and cost-effectiveness program could save the United States $368 billion over 10 years, a new report contends. Combined with other healthcare effi...

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...

California's state assembly this week passed ground-breaking health legislation that promises to extend healthcare coverage to millions of uninsured California residents. The plan, ne...

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...

Royal Philips Electronics will acquire healthcare IT vendor Visicu in a $430 million deal, Philips announced today. The purchase is a step towards Philips' goal of...

Despite the uncertainty posed by healthcare reform and reimbursement changes, hospitals appear to be bullish on healthcare facility projects. A strong majority of...