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How and where patients spend their last days depend more on where they live than patient or family choice, according to a new report. The 1998 Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care shows significant disparity between… Continued

Marketing the University of Nebraska’s relatively unknown physician group practice, University Medical Associates, as the time-conscious choice for primary care service in the Omaha market meant setting a 15-minute no-wait goal and backing it up… Continued

Healthcare CEO compensation jumped 25%, according to a Jenks Healthcare Business Report survey, an Atlanta-based newsletter. The recently released survey found: 70 major hospital, pharmaceutical and managed care companies averaged $1.95 million in 1996, up… Continued

Instead of complaining about managed care, Dr. Sam Bierstock of Boca Raton, Fla., and his Managed Care Blues Band decided to sing about it. Humorous tunes like "You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me… Continued

A national health science publisher and subsidiary of The Times Mirror Company, debuted its new "Mosby’s Patient CareLink" online program to support point-of-care provider initiatives, last week at the American Medical Informatics Association convention in… Continued

Citizens Against Government Waste just released its special investigative report on fraud in the $212 billion-a-year Medicare program outlining 67 examples of how physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers are abusing the system to the… Continued

The Sachs Group, a healthcare information provider based in Evanston, Ill., has identified 13 health plans that make the grade for member satisfaction through its Sachs HMO Honor Roll analysis report. Choicecare Health Plans, Inc… Continued

For hospitals that meet Homecare’s initial criteria-strong continuum of care mission, good economic scale, and numerous ancillary services already in place-Homecare provides a full turn-key franchise program that: features in-patient, out-patient and at-home care product… Continued

Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wisconsin is taking on Medicare fraud with a new computerized detection system. The Fraud and Abuse Management System (FAMS) allows the insurance giant to identify patterns of fraudulent… Continued

Last year, St. Peter’s Medical Center in New Brunswick, N.J., started negotiating with Homecare to expand its existing presence into the home healthcare industry. Its entree into the market had been through homecare nursing services… Continued