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Workplace options unveils increased risk HRA Workplace Options, a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of work-life employee benefits, is unveiling a health risk assessment (HRA) to hel...
PSS World Medical, Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla. has announced that it has made a $22.5 million equity investment, approximately 5 percent of current outstanding shares, in athen...
ATLANTA – A telehealth system is improving care for a facility’s heart failure patients while saving money for a specialty treatment center at Piedmont Hospital. Atlanta...
PLANO, TX – Shareholders of Triad Hospitals Inc. last month approved the company’s acquisition by Community Health Systems Inc. Under terms of the merger agreement, Triad shareho...
CHATTANOOGA, TN – Although the technology strategies vary, payers are either starting or expanding pilot programs that adjudicate claims in real time for providers. While it’s too...
BOCA RATON, FL – Rushed, overworked and generally at odds with the productivity-based pay model. These are common adjectives in primary care. Now, 150 physicians in 16 states are...
MCLEAN, VA – Northrop Grumman will be developing a Web-based patient information application that will give Medicare providers comprehensive assessments of patients discharged from post-ac...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued new rules last week to make it easier for states to approve applicants to the Medicaid program. The rules, issued July 2,...
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service is raising the bar for not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare organizations reporting information on annual tax returns. The IRS las...
WASHINGTON – The Congressional Budget Office has issued a Medicare spending report that provides new insight to the relationship between physician compensation levels and patient volume....