Revenue Cycle Management
The Engineering Services Network, an Arlington, Va.-based developer of engineering and technology solutions, has won a $4.2 million VistA Financial Annual Enhancements contract to improve the way in which the U.S. department of Veterans Affairs tracks costs and manages claims and billing for its health system.
Six health plans -Aetna, CDPHP, the Hudson Health Plan, MVP Health Care, UnitedHealthcare and Empire BlueCross Blue Shield - have provided $1.5 million in incentive payments to 236 separate primary care physicians in 11 practices in New York that have achieved patient-centered medical home recognition by the NCQA.
State health officials searching for solutions to Texas’ multibillion-dollar budget shortfall have set their sights on neonatal intensive care units, which they say are being overbuilt and overused by hospitals eager to profit from the high-cost care.
Three hospitals on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula are seeking an affiliation with Seattle-based Swedish Medical Center – an alliance that would allow the smaller hospitals to send patients to Swedish for specialized treatment.
Rather than focusing on new construction, health systems are renovating or expanding, according to a survey conducted by Health Facilities Management magazine and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering.
Most physicians and healthcare administrators believe that healthcare, and particularly the "revenue cycle," are controlled entirely by managed-care companies.
The new proposed regulations on accountable care organizations, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services, launch one of the first delivery-reform initiatives to be implemented under the Accountable Care Act.
The HIMSS Medical Banking Project G7 Roundtable, a specialized think-tank of healthcare stakeholders, has released two new reports on accountable care organizations and real time adjudication of claims.
Five healthcare systems in the Central Atlantic region have united to form the Central Atlantic Health Network, a supply purchasing collaborative.
Affiliated Computer Services of Dallas, a subsidiary of Xerox, has announced plans to acquire CredenceHealth, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of software that captures and analyzes patient data to assist healthcare providers and health plans in improving quality of care and compliance with meaningful use regulations.