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A year ago, few people outside of the pharmacy sector knew much about drug compounding. Now the industry is at the center of legal and regulatory action.
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The long-anticipated shakeout in the EHR market is underway.
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Now that the Obama administration has delivered its long-awaited rule making home-care aides eligible for overtime pay and the federal minimum wage, employers who send out the aides must weigh the impact of a more even playing field.
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Premier's planned IPO and reorganization is designed to boost its capacity to compete in the emerging data analytics and consulting market at a time when some systems are turning away from GPOs.
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Like insurance company executives, the leaders of big healthcare vendors, supply companies and group purchasing organizations are seeing their roles and the nature of their influence changing. And, naturally, the bigger the organization, the bigger their influence.
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Facing declining revenue and reimbursement, hospital systems across the U.S. are making it a priority to sharply reduce spending on supplies including gloves, syringes and hip implants.
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Healthcare prices are growing at historically low rates, according to new estimates from the Altarum Institute.
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For 20 years, the CMS has not applied the federal ban on physician conflicts of interest known as the Stark law to Medicaid claims. It's focused on Medicare only. But private whistle-blowers have begun pressing for clarity on the issue because a 1993 law applying Stark to Medicaid remains on the...
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The healthcare industry is gradually overcoming its fears and is—finally—about to get high on the cloud.
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When Tenet Healthcare Corp. recently agreed to pay $4.3 billion to acquire Vanguard Health Systems—after being relatively quiet on the acquisition front—it...
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