Eric Wicklund

HealthPort officials say they're scaling back their business to focus solely on what they do best - ROI solutions.

In yet another good news/bad news scenario, lawmakers once again postponed a 23 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements to doctors - but only for one month.

H.D. Smith, a Springfield, Ill.-based pharmaceutical wholesaler, has been selected by the Moffitt Cancer Center as its primary pharmaceutical supplier of critical therapies designed to help patients undergoing treatment for cancer.

After three years of using Craneware's Chargemaster Toolkit at its five teaching hospitals, Continuum Health Partners will add new tools designed to improve revenue integrity.

Cardinal Health is building its drug distribution portfolio with the acquisition of Kinray, Inc., a Whitestone, N.Y.-based privately held distributor of branded and generic medicines to more than 2,000 retail independent pharmacy customers.

A national provider of administration services for employee benefit programs is teaming with MasterCard to improve employee participation in flexible spending and health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements.

A Midwest-based health plan administrator has signed on with Verisk Health to improve its offerings through the use of healthcare analytics.

Portico Systems, a Philadelphia-based developer of integrated provider management solutions, has announced the launch of its Master Data Management (MDM) solution.

VHA, Inc., is looking to help hospitals cut millions of dollars in wasted expenses from their high-cost cardiology, orthopedics and spine service line procedures through a new "Door-to-Discharge" program.

The McKesson Corporation has secured deals with three of the four federally-approved Recovery Audit Contractors and will be providing medical necessity analytics tools for Medicare's auditing efforts in 43 states.