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MINNEAPOLIS – It never hurts to have good advice. That’s the thinking that officials at Ingenix, a Minneapolis-based health information technology firm, employed i...

SAN DIEGO – Hospitals probably will be rushing to get ready for the significant changes expected to be included in the government’s final rule for Medicare’s inpatient prospec...

WASHINGTON – In its letter last month to top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services, the American Medical Association detailed “serious concerns” about the dis...

The federal government announced Friday a final rule that limits how much it will pay state Medicaid agencies for prescription drugs. The regulation, which aims to curb inflated drug pri...

DALLAS – Physicians in small- to medium-sized practices are hesitant to embrace information technology, often because they think new solutions are too expensive and/or complicated to install...

The world of strategic planning in healthcare has become more complex, with concepts such as “scenario planning,” “game theory” and “nonlinear analysis” being discu...

HARRISBURG, PA – A new bill introduced in Pennsylvania’s House would have the state pay the balances of medical students’ loans for graduates who agree to practice medicine in t...

GAO’s care report outlines need for more investigation The Government Accountability Office’s recent report on long-term care partnership programs in four states outline...

Is care for senior citizens at risk? At the very least, the threat of growing limitations in the availability of care is, depending on your point of view, being suggested as a possibilit...

ORLANDO, FL – To the estimated 6,000 community oncologists nationwide, the concept of “shopping” doesn’t mean heading over to the mall to buy a new shirt or visiting the g...