Revenue Cycle Management

New organization would insure 1.8 million

In early January, Blue Shield of California proposed rate hikes for nearly 200,000 individual policy holders that would see some members' premiums jump as much as 59 percent on March 1.

The California-based Integrated Healthcare Association has been awarded a three-year, $2.9 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

BancTec is partnering with MediStreams to introduce Healthcare Remittance Automation, an outsourced service available to providers, aggregators and financial institutions of all sizes.

Hospital executives are planning for budget increases over the next five years and are prioritizing strategic initiatives that had previously been on hold due to economic constraints, according to a new study by L.E.K. Consulting.

The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association says Florida could reduce its Medicaid prescription drug spending by $462 million.

Taleo, a Dublin, Calif.-based provider of on-demand talent management solutions, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cytiva Software, an Emeryville, Calif.-based provider of on-demand recruiting software solutions, for approximately $1 million (Canadian) in cash.

Experts at the eHealth Initiative's annual conference, held Jan. 19-21 in Washington, D.C., offered their advice on how to accomplish coordinated care "in the real world."

Perceptive Software, based in Shawnee, Kan., has announced that Memorial Hospital and Manor in Bainbridge, Ga., is deploying the company's ImageNow document management, imaging and workflow solution in its medical records and registration departments.

CMS has announced final federal share disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments for FY 2009 and the preliminary allotments for FY 2011.