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The Maryland Health Care Commission has established the Maryland Health Care Quality Reports website, which offers consumer data on hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and long-term care, according to a Washington Business Journal Morning Edition report.

The Federal Trade Commission has settled with PaymentsMD, an Atlanta-based medical billing company, which used consumers' billing information to access their clinical information, according a Venture Beat report.

How are physician practices handling HIPAA compliance? Here are nine statistics from the NueMD 2014 HIPAA survey.

Here are the 11 top-rated insurers by reimbursement rate, according to the Medscape Insurer Ratings Report 2014.

IntelliHARTx, a Findlay, Ohio-based medical collections company, plans to develop a new call center in Kingsport, Tenn., according to a TimesNews report.

Here are five recent articles on price transparency in the healthcare industry.

A number of physician groups are pushing for another two-year delay for ICD-10 implementation, according to a Journal of AHIMA report.

Allowing patients access to their unedited electronic health records can improve outcomes, according to a MediGain blog post.

Revenue cycle management company MediGain has acquired New Jersey-based Millennium Practice Management Associates. 

Private health insurance exchanges are on the rise. Can these exchanges help healthcare move towards a culture of transparency?