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The Hispanic population in the United States is a rapidly growing consumer market, estimated to increase by 58 percent by 2015. However, racial and ethnic minorities, including Hispanics, often receive poorer quality of care and face more barriers when accessing healthcare. To address these disparities, the National Society of Hispanic
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Fortune 500 employers are tackling the difficulties of managing health care costs while adhering to the numerous compliance requirements stemming from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). At the HighRoads 2011 Customer Summit, May 2-4, prominent employers, including AT&T, Boeing, Deloitte, The Coca-Cola Company, Pitney Bowes, and Lockheed Martin,
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Telehealth technology has been advancing significantly to improve the lives of patients with chronic conditions and control escalating healthcare costs. Building on the Bosch Group's 125-year history of technological innovation, Robert Bosch Healthcare, Inc. has announced new advances in telehealth systems designed to create efficiencies for healthcare professionals
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Leaders from the Premier healthcare alliance will engage in national discussions throughout April on health reform, healthcare information technology (HIT), accountable care organizations (ACOs), and supply chain improvement. The experts will share their insights and expertise at various events across the country, focusing on collaborative efforts to enhance healthcare quality
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Three key Republican Senators, Olympia J. Snowe, Orrin G. Hatch, and Michael B. Enzi, have written a letter to Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy Chief Counsel Winslow Sargeant, requesting information on the office's efforts to protect small businesses from the onslaught of new regulations stemming from
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U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and a majority of his colleagues in the Senate voted to repeal a contentious provision of the health care reform law, which would have required businesses, local governments, and charities to file Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 1099 forms for transactions totaling more than $600
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law on March 23, 2010, has been embroiled in litigation on its one-year anniversary, with five key decisions rendered in separate lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the law. The decisions, brought by individual citizens, states, academic institutions, and foundations, center around the individual
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Office Ally has announced the introduction of a new real-time clinical messaging tool called MessageMate, aimed at improving patient outcomes while controlling healthcare costs. This innovative tool enables providers to receive real-time notifications of recommended clinical procedures, which are also shared electronically with patients through Office Ally's patient
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As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act continues to shape the health care landscape, unintended consequences of its provisions are beginning to manifest. The medical loss ratio (MLR) provision, in particular, is having a devastating impact on the customer service provided by licensed insurance agents. According to NAIFA President
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Most health policy experts predicted that the public would soon embrace the Affordable Care Act, but recent polls indicate that support for the bill has hit an all-time low. Our research reveals that the key to gaining widespread support for the legislation is not to clarify its intricacies, but to
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Seven of the top 10 healthcare companies have chosen HP's imaging and printing solutions to drive both clinical and financial value, leveraging the company's products, solutions, and services to offset the impact of the economic recession, reimbursement cuts, and the rise of "self pay."
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As the United States undergoes significant national health care reforms, University of Michigan physicians emphasize the importance of instructing medical students and residents on how health care systems function. In a recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, two U-M physicians and a U-M Medical School graduate
