Fred Bazzoli

An initiative of the Medical Banking Project is aiming to develop a common medical banking platform in the next year to support a growing range of healthcare financial transactions....

DENISON, TX – Software applications often don’t achieve predicted results and sometimes frustrate users. That wasn’t the case at Texoma Medical Center. Its three...

CLEVELAND – In unity there is strength – and savings – for University Hospitals. The 11-hospital chain moved to a unified approach for ordering supplies and was able...

NAPA, CA – Regulus knows the paper-based side of healthcare. It claims to send the highest volume of first-class mail of anyone in the U.S. While it’s a huge provider in s...

Is there gold in them thar hills? That’s what hospital chain purchasers might be thinking now. When HCA became one of the biggest leveraged buyouts in history late last year, eyebr...

Three Congressmen are re-opening questions regarding physician-owned specialty hospitals after a patient died in Texas last month after a procedure in one such facility....

MINNEAPOLIS – Insurers offering long-term care insurance are becoming more conservative in setting up reserves for those policies, perhaps anticipating that more policyholders will eventually us...

OMAHA, NE – Alegent Health, a nine-hospital system in and around Omaha, Neb., is one of the first in the nation to provide consumers with accurate estimates of the cost of their care, factoring...

Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania is licensing a service that will securely send members' health and healthcare finance information to electronic devices, including PDAs and cell phones....

A hospital's CEO doesn't typically do rounds at midnight, particularly to allay IT concerns. But that's what Salem Hospital's CEO did to ensure that front-line users felt comfortable with the facility...