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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | April 20, 2007
HealthSouth Corp. continued its efforts to shed extraneous lines Thursday, announcing that it had entered a definitive agreement to sell its diagnostic division. The sale, to Th...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | April 20, 2007
America's Health Insurance Plans has released a national strategy to advance improvement in U.S. healthcare quality and safety. The strategy, revealed in a 16-pa...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | April 19, 2007
Responding to industry-wide disdain for the payment methods used in determining provider reimbursements, a new report pushes an alternative model based on risk-adjusted cost assessment and quality out...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | April 18, 2007
The U.S. Senate has voted against a bill proposing to allow the federal government to negotiate for lower Medicare drug prices. The vote comes as a disappoi...
By Patty Enrado | 01:00 am | April 18, 2007
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Later this month, ChainDrugStore.net will provide pharmacy analytics to manufacturing partners, managed care organizations and pharmacy members. Manufacturin...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | April 17, 2007
While pay-for-performance (P4P) and public quality-reporting programs may contribute to the improvement of healthcare quality, a recent study suggests that such programs might also decrease quality of...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | April 17, 2007
Lighthouse1 of Minneapolis, a provider of consumer-driven healthcare benefits administration solutions, has announced a partnership with Avon, Conn.-based Evolution Benefits...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | April 13, 2007
Two large mergers of healthcare insurers were criticized this week, as healthcare provider organizations and others questioned the effect that diminished competition would have on prices and services....
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | April 13, 2007
States will receive varying shares of a $30 million federal grant to provide local health insurance counseling for Medicare beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced....
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | April 12, 2007
By Rishabh Mehrotra and Newt Gingrich What does the ideal Medicaid program look like? The answer is not obvious. One key challenge for policymak...