Eric Wicklund
In the midst of a massive recession that has hospitals cutting projects and even staff, the Healthcare Financial Management Association needed a pep talk to kick off this week's ANI conference in Seattle.
With a lot of the talk at this week's Healthcare Financial Management Association ANI conference on revenue cycle management, CareMedic Systems is showcasing a new product designed to bring as much of the process as possible to the front end.
With the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference less than a week away, vendors are making last-minute preparations on solutions designed to improve the hospital's bottom line as well as its ability to deliver care.
NaviNet has launched two new online solutions designed to help health plans improve their relationship with providers.
Among the topics ready to take center stage at HFMA's 2009 ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference is the increase in consumer-directed healthcare - in particular, the increase in options available to the consumer to pay for his or her healthcare needs.
Emdeon, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of revenue and payment cycle solutions, is partnering with Bloodhound Technologies, a Durham, N.C.-based provider of claims editing and analytics, to deliver a new claims processing model.
Targeting a $150-billion-a-year chink in the nation’s healthcare armor, Ingenix is shoring up its payment accuracy technology with the acquisition of AIM Healthcare Services, Inc.
The MRO Corp., a King of Prussia, Pa.-based developer of release-of-information and audit tracking solutions, has announced that DeKalb Medical in Decatur, Ga., will use the company’s ROI Online software.
Emdeon is taking on the dark side of healthcare finance. The Nashville-based provider of revenue and payment cycle solutions is targeting the billions of dollars lost each year in healthcare fraud by acquiring The Sentinel Group, a developer of data analytics solutions and technology designed to ferret out healthcare fraud and abuses.