Healthcare Finance Staff
BancTec, which specializes in financial business process outsourcing, transaction automation and document management, has acquired certain assets of Richardson, Texas-based GTESS, a provider of claims pre-adjudication technology and services for the healthcare industry.
While AHIP Institute's session programming takes on most of the major and timely topics of the industry both in its general sessions and concurrent sessions, it also provides attendees who are early risers with highly focused information during its Networking Breakfasts program.
With technology playing a bigger and bigger role both in how healthcare is delivered to populations as well as where it is delivered, AHIP Institute 2012 will present a general session at 10 a.m. Thursday called "Brave New World of Health Care: At the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Delivery System Transformation" to help attendees better understand how emerging technologies are transforming the face of the industry.
Around 3,000 executives from the health insurance sector and related industries will converge beginning Wednesday in Salt Lake City for AHIP Institute 2012. This year's event is sure to be lively considering the impending Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act and the upcoming presidential election.
Insurance companies are faced with myriad challenges in today's market, not the least of which is finding how they will both upgrade their IT infrastructure and organizational capabilities in order to effectively execute new payment models.
To help organizations develop a solid framework for these changes, enterprise-class software company HealthEdge will present a session, "Five Steps to Market Reinvention: Supporting ACOs, Exchanges and Other Reform Initiatives," at 7:00 a.m. on Friday at AHIP's Institute 2012.
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) and Press Ganey Associates have launched a new survey tool designed to help accountable care organizations (ACOs) improve efficiency, quality and the patient's experience.
It's going to take more healthcare reform for productivity gains to show up from HIT adoption, according to a new report.
Accountable care organizations today mainly exist as a concept – a high-minded concept to be sure, but a concept just the same. The elements required to make the concept a reality remain largely elusive to many provider groups as they search for cohesion, cooperation and machination.
Regina Doxtader - CFO, Botsford Health Care, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Enron, one of the most infamous companies of this millennium because of its corporate ethical scandals, serves a very useful purpose for all businesses. The lessons learned from its mistakes have helped identify new boundaries and standards for what should be expected of all companies. It also brought the value of ethics and integrity into proper focus.