Healthcare Finance Staff
"Is HITECH working?" That was the question posed by Vince Kuraitis, principal of Better Health Technologies, at the Mobile Health Expo in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
The Department of Justice has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, alleging that provisions of its agreements with hospitals raise hospital prices, prevent other insurers from entering the marketplace and discourage discounts.
The nation could save about $3.5 trillion over the next 25 years by expanding coordinated care programs in Medicare and Medicaid, according to a new analysis by the UnitedHealth Group's Center for Health Reform & Modernization.
HP Enterprise Services has been awarded a task order worth up to $26 million by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to maintain its Integrated Data Repository (IDR) and provide data quality services to improve the accuracy of Medicare payment data.
Information technology and data mining capabilities had a role in dismantling what authorities are calling the largest Medicare fraud scheme ever, involving 73 members and associates of organized crime and more than $163 million in fraudulent billing.
David Barham, vice president of finance for operations for Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis, Tenn., is this month's Newsmaker.
In an effort to increase understanding of the tax and grandfathering provisions of healthcare reform, WellPoint Inc. recently launched two new online tools to help business owners understand the implications of these provisions with their current health plan.
The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), a statewide leadership group that promotes quality improvement, accountability and affordability of healthcare in California, has named its top 45 performing physician organizations for 2009, based on the IHA statewide Pay for Performance (P4P) program measures.
Acquiring and retaining the best risk, meeting the 80 percent medical loss ratio and establishing cost-effective distribution channels and working with exchanges are top priorities of executives of health insurance companies, according to a recent survey.
Alisa Ray, executive director of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, said Friday that CCHIT doesn't foresee a backlog of any kind in accommodating testing for meaningful use certification.