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The latest company to take a stab at making sure people fill their prescriptions and stay on their medications is focused on one popular concept: Nobody wants to be a patient.

The economic downturn is playing a major role in the rise of individual health plans.

The Ohio Association of Home Medical Equipment Services has announced its opposition to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ competitive bidding plan for Medicare reimbursements, joining a host of other organizations that contend the plan is unsustainable will put provider organizations out of business and, as a result, restrict access to needed medical equipment and care.

On July 13, federal officials issued the final rule on how providers should demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health records if they want to qualify for federal incentives in 2011.

A new study estimates that measurable medical errors cost the U.S. economy $19.5 billion in 2008.

Electronic health records aren’t just for clinicians anymore. That's the thinking of the Healthcare Billing & Management Association, which will highlight the importance of EHRs to third-party medical billers and billing professionals during its 2010 Annual Conference, scheduled for Sept. 12-14 in St. Louis.

Forty health systems have joined the Premier healthcare alliance's Accountable Care Organization Readiness Collaborative, which is intended to help health systems prepare to become ACOs.

The cost of U.S. healthcare spending has become one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Each side is constantly looking for proof that their solution to the healthcare crisis will keep costs down, yet neither side has a tried and true method.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a hospital inpatient and long-term care prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2011 that would decrease average inpatient payments by 0.4 percent.