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Fred Bazzoli

By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
WASHINGTON – Standard business rules have been released by a collaborative organization to facilitate the data exchange process between providers and insurers. The rules w...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | April 27, 2007
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....
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | April 27, 2007
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...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | April 20, 2007
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...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | April 13, 2007
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....
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | April 10, 2007
Standard business rules have been released by a collaborative organization to facilitate the data exchange process between providers and insurers. The rules were...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | April 03, 2007
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...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 30, 2007
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....
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 30, 2007
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...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | March 29, 2007
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...