Fred Bazzoli
The Medical Banking Project is taking on its first test case, aiming to begin to show how the nation's banks can play a role in solving some of the most vexing issues in healthcare data exchanges....
Large medical group practices have proven they can adjust to respond to a variety of quality and cost-containment incentives, in one of the first tests of a pay-for-performance approach....
Consolidation among health plans took a step forward in the competitive Michigan market with the announcement last week of the sale of a smaller health plan to a larger provider-based health plan....
The interest has always been there, of course, because healthcare organizations have faced delays in receiving payments that could be measured in months. Uncertainty surrounds most...
In action just before the 109th Session of Congress ended, both houses passed bipartisan legislation addressing a number of end-of-session concerns, including the implementation of a quality reporting...
WORTHINGTON, OH – A popular measure of the value that hospitals pour back into their communities suggests that organizations have been able to provide more benefit as profitability increases....
PROVIDERS ARE painfully aware that they pay billions of dollars to support the claims adjudication process. Payers pretty much know the same thing. Well, then, this should be easy. Someone...
Growing interest in providing simple healthcare in inexpensive settings has spawned rising interest in convenient care clinics. Now there’s a trade group to represent the concept. The Con...
Any group practice is likely to deal with several payers, each with a complicated contract that has a variety of stipulations and provisions. Keeping track of it all – or, rather,...
Providers and payers say they’re ready to reap potential administrative savings from automated electronic processing for both data exchange and fund transfers.However, despite the wides...