Healthcare Finance Staff
Aiming to advance its suite of documentation and coding technologies, 3M has acquired Bethesda, Md.-based CodeRyte, which develops clinical natural language processing and computer-assisted coding tools.
In its first full year of contracting with Teladoc for telehealth services, Rent-A-Center reported savings of more than $700,000 in healthcare expenses and lost productivity.
The newly-proposed ICD-10 compliance deadline of October 1, 2014 won't please every healthcare organization. What it does accomplish, though, is to give them a bit of leeway in their project planning.
Kathy Love
Chief Executive Officer
Clark Regional Medical Center
Winchester, KY
The loose contingent of health professionals railing against the ICD-10 delay will likely consider this welcome news: There is a document circulating the web right now -- with a stamp at the top suggesting it will be published in the Federal Register on April 17, 2012 -- in which HHS proposes that the new compliance date for ICD-10 be October 1, 2014.
Despite the recent economic downturn, jobs in healthcare grew while jobs in other sectors declined, according to a new report by the nonprofit Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University at Albany School of Public Health.
Chartered Health Plan, the oldest Medicaid managed care organization in the District of Columbia, is launching a new text messaging program for 50 of its members to help them better manage diabetes, which requires regular care to avoid costly complications.
In a story worthy of a prime time serial drama, Highmark Inc. on April 1, fired its CEO Kenneth Melani, MD, for "cause" just four days after Melani was arrested for assaulting the estranged husband of a Highmark employee with whom Melani has allegedly been having an affair.
The Health IT Policy Committee has concerns over some of the health information exchange requirements contained in the meaningful use Stage 2 proposed rule.
In Texas, where everything seems larger than life, the need for health IT workers is big, according to the Department of Health Information Management at the Texas State University-San Marcos.