Patty Enrado

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced a deadline of October 1, 2011, for the industry to convert to ICD-10 for coding diagnoses and treatment.Advocat...

Healthcare providers are experiencing a continuing crunch for money, with health insurance carriers and state and federal governments reducing payments for healthcare services such as unreimbursed car...

Scott Wanless, principal management consultant for Fujitsu Consulting’s Business Intelligence Practice, coined the term “preparatory” analytics to describe what the predictive ana...

WASHINGTON – Thirty states will share more than $49 million in grants awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services to support their high-risk pools.More than 200,000 individua...

WASHINGTON – The debate over H.R. 6331, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, was focused on removing the Medicare physician payment cuts and a battle of wills betwee...

EAGAN, MN – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is waiving co-pays for members who use retail health clinics. “Part of the initiative is to optimize care delivery and keep pre...

There are two classes of products in the contract management market – a revenue cycle management (RCM) product’s contract component and a standalone contract management application. An...

WASHINGTON – Five major California-based payers have settled with the Department of Managed Health Care, the state’s health insurance regulator, over illegal rescissions, but the issue of...

Through the Calhoun County "Pathways to Health" initiative, the community of Battle Creek, Mich., has been refining and applying a chronic care model to improve clinical outcomes, boost heal...

PEORIA, IL – Since 2002, Caterpillar has kept its medical inflation rate to below 2 percent while recently reporting positive employee health outcomes.The global manufacturer’s su...