Bernie Monegain
CaroMont Health, Sg2 and GE Healthcare will work together on several initiatives aimed at tackling the rising costs of delivering healthcare, officials announced in June at ANI, the annual conference of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Healthcare reform was on the mind of many healthcare finance executives gathered in Las Vegas Sunday for the start of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's annual ANI conference.
Government officials announced a new $250 million federal investment to increase the number of primary care professionals such as physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants and public health workers.
The Government Accountability Office has identified five key areas for preventing Medicare fraud, waste and abuse. In a June 15 report, the GAO said its recommendations would also help the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reduce improper payments.
A healthcare price-comparison startup launched by former executives from RelayHealth and athenahealth has so far raised $60 million in funding - including an investment from the Cleveland Clinic.
Medicare, private insurers and states are coming together in a government-sponsored project designed to improve primary care and reduce costs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will spend $73.2 million to update three Web sites that garner more than 500 million page views a year from beneficiaries.
Washington and New Mexico Medicaid programs will receive thousands of dollars in federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a three-year, $72 million contract to the Harris Corp. to support the expansion of the VA's Consolidated Patient Account Center across the country.
Hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and added $8.1 million to healthcare costs in 2006, according to a recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.