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Tufts Medical, Blue Cross negotiations break down
The breakdown in contract talks between Boston’s Tufts Medical Center physicians and Blue Cross and Blue Shield...
Grim debt prognosis at health nonprofits
The credit crisis is inflicting pain on the country's already troubled nonprofit hospitals and health systems. Like...
Rule shields health workers who withhold care based on beliefs
The Bush administration has granted sweeping new protections to health workers who refuse to provide care that violates...
Geography has role in Medicare cancer coverage
CyberKnife is a new but fast-growing radiation treatment for prostate cancer, and the chief selling point is that...
From Medicare, a push against paper
Starting in January, doctors who e-prescribe can get bonus pay from Medicare, but persuading U.S. doctors to ditch...
Magazine: Write It Right
The new MS-DRG system makes getting help with documentation more important than ever.
SSA moves ahead on automated medical records retrieval
The Social Security Administration wants to develop a prototype of a system that would automatically pull information...
CMS offers 5.1% payment increases
Physicians and other eligible professionals who adopt and use qualified electronic prescribing systems to transmit...
Face to Face
Within the span of a few days, I was delighted to address two groups that are often thought to be on opposite sides of...
Insurer urges computerized prescriptions at Massachusetts hospitals
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts has announced that it will require all the state’s hospitals to fully...