Fred Bazzoli
WASHINGTON – Standard business rules have been released by a collaborative organization to facilitate the data exchange process between providers and insurers. The rules w...
Changes in Medicare contained in a massive proposed federal rule will result in nearly $25 billion in reductions in hospital payments over five years, a national advocacy group is charging....
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are continuing to ratchet up the pressure on specialty hospitals, requiring them to improve their ability to treat patients with emergen...
HealthSouth Corp. continued its efforts to shed extraneous lines Thursday, announcing that it had entered a definitive agreement to sell its diagnostic division. The sale, to Th...
Two large mergers of healthcare insurers were criticized this week, as healthcare provider organizations and others questioned the effect that diminished competition would have on prices and services....
Standard business rules have been released by a collaborative organization to facilitate the data exchange process between providers and insurers. The rules were...
Providers and payers making a good-faith effort to meet May 23 deadline for national provider identifier compliance will have as much as 12 more months to start using the identifiers on claim forms, t...
Consumers see the logic of pairing flexible savings accounts with prepaid cards that enable healthcare providers to gain payment from consumers' FSA balances right after services are rendered....
ELMWOOD PARK, NJ – Emdeon Corp. will soon be rolling out an initiative to help connect payers and providers with an electronic payment and remittance service. Emdeon is planning...
It was an interesting experience to be a healthcare “insider” in a room full of people trying to figure out how they can fit into the healthcare industry. Maybe “inside...