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HHS has issued a final rule to amend the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 to now allow laboratories to give a patient, or a patient's personal representative, access to his or her complete laboratory test results when requested.

Last month was a milestone for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as people began using the coverage they purchased through the state-based and federally run healthcare exchanges.

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Healthcare is far from an optimized industry. We have waste in the form of duplicative and unnecessary services, errors and a lack of standardization, that while possible to overcome, will take time and require a transformation of business models. But…

Narrow network has been a big buzzword in healthcare over the last few months. Insurers' efforts to offer lower-cost, but more restrictive plans, are welcomed by cost-conscious consumers, but leave higher-cost hospitals worried. While the volume of narrow networks plans…

Greg Koonsman, Senior Partner of VMG Health, will present a session on health system transactions and joint ventures this May at Becker’s Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting.

VMG Health's ASC Intellimarker Survey found that management and development companies owned or managed 22.3% of freestanding ASCs.

HackensackUMC is deploying its mobile satellite emergency department outside of MetLife Stadium in New Jersey up through the Super Bowl, according to a system news release.

Missouri hospitals are taking healthcare's transparency movement a step further: They will stop using "code black" and other emergency codes and instead use plainer language, such as "bomb threat," according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.