Eric Wicklund
The nation's health insurance industry leaders were told Thursday that health reform might not seem pleasant, but it is necessary to repair a misaligned healthcare system.
Health plans and insurers, who have endured the brunt of criticism for soaring healthcare costs, are bracing for change as the nation moves toward reform.
While Nashville is slowly drying out from a devastating flood that forced the Healthcare Financial Management Association to move its annual conference, developers are moving forward with plans to open a medical trade center that could attract healthcare vendors and generate an estimated $390 million a year in business.
Healthcare providers struggling to shift from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets by the government’s Oct. 1, 2013 deadline could find the path to conversion a little easier, according to executives at Ingenix and Health Language, Inc.
The future of healthcare may very well lie in telemedicine, though it remains to be seen if providers and payers can agree on how such care is compensated.
The moving of the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s ANI conference from Nashville to Las Vegas due to flooding this year has given healthcare vendors ample opportunity to employ themes in the marketing of their products.
MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that it will provide its spend management solutions to RehabCare, a St. Louis-based national provider of long-term acute care and rehabilitation services. The company has also put out the call for nominations for its ninth annual Technology & Innovation Forum.
The ever-growing telemedicine market is getting a little more sophisticated these days, thanks in part to Polycom's latest offering.
An Ohio-based nursing home management company has signed an agreement to take over five bankrupt nursing homes in Georgia, continuing its national effort to acquire and rehabilitate underperforming or badly managed facilities.
A global bidding war is shaping up between some of the world's largest private equity groups for Australia's second-largest hospital owner.