Bernie Monegain
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services set new nursing home payment rates for 2009 and issued a final rule to on payment for services for people who need the intensive rehabilitation service...
Microsoft executive Bill Crounse, MD urged an audience of healthcare executives here Tuesday at the Third Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on The Road to Interoperability to develop a new busin...
The Premier healthcare alliance, which lists 2,000 hospitals across the country as members, says quality reporting that requires proprietary information, tools or methodology is too expensive and s...
Regional health information organizations and health information exchanges may not be the answer to a nationwide network, according to David Westfall Bates, MD, an internist at Brigham & Women's H...
Selecting and implementing an electronic health record system is among the top concerns physician practice managers list in a new survey by the Medical Group Management Association. According...
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey executives say the insurer will be the first in the nation to invest in electronic medical history technology for select network hospitals. The insurer wil...
A new report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Health Research Institute finds that two-thirds of health leaders, including government and private payers from 20 different countries, see prob...
Tenet Healthcare Corp. has agreed to sell its majority stake in Broadlane, a technology-oriented healthcare services company, to TowerBrook Capital Partners in a $155 million cash deal.The de...
More than 27,000 healthcare providers who received Medicare payments in 2006 together owe the government more than $2 billion in back taxes, according to a new report from the Government Accountabilit...
The Healthcare Financial Management Association, which is in the midst of its annual conference here, has released the first in a series of reports aimed at building a new payment system for healthcar...