Molly Merrill
The TriZetto Group, Inc., announced Tuesday that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately held Gateway EDI, a St. Louis-based healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) company. Officials said the combination of the companies' platforms will benefit both payers and providers by delivering integrated end-to-end real-time payment information.
An electronic health card designed to maintain an individual's personal health record and provide a payment card option that can access an individual's HSA, FSA or HRA account is being launched during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference next week.
Medicare costs in the last six months of life are influenced more by patient characteristics - such as ability to function, the severity of the illness and family support - than by regional factors, such as the number of hospital beds available, according to a study published in The Annals of Internal Medicine.
According to the the U.S. News Media Group's annual survey, only 18 nursing homes in the nation - out of more than 15,000 - have received four straight quarters of perfect five-star ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Kindred Healthcare has announced plans to acquire the St. Louis-based RehabCare Group, creating what officials say will be the largest post-acute healthcare services company in the nation, with more than $6 billion in annual revenues and operations in 46 states.
Hospital mergers and acquisitions saw a marked increase in activity in 2010, according to Deal Search Online, a database maintained by Irving Levin Associates, Inc. The database recently released the five largest hospital transactions reported in 2010.
Spending on psychiatric drugs grew 5.6 percent from 2004 to 2005, down from the 27.3 percent growth from 1999 to 2000, according to a study in the February issue of Health Affairs.
Two years after the reauthorization and expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, a state-by-state scorecard designed to evaluate how the system is working finds wide geographic disparities, according to the Commonwealth Fund.
Apple, eBay, HP, Intel, Intuit and Oracle have joined to provide $150 million to help support the building of the New Stanford Hospital, which is being called a global model for patient-centered and technologically advanced healthcare.
Patients hospitalized for major acute medical conditions - including heart attack, stroke and pneumonia - are less likely to die in high-spending hospitals, according to a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.