Healthcare Finance Staff

Charles Miller, spokesperson, Civil Division of the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Rayanna Moore is system director of revenue cycle at Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, a three-hospital health system based in Boone, N.C. Moore spoke recently with editor Richard Pizzi about the challenges she faces managing revenue cycle at her health system.

Nine California hospitals have been assessed administrative penalties after the California Department of Public Health determined that the facilities' noncompliance with licensing requirements has caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients.

Mary Hatch, CFO, Dixie Regional Medical Center, St. George, Utah

Mary Geegan Middleton, Executive Director, Cassopolis Family Clinic, Cassopolis, Mich., 2 locales, 8 providers

HFMA will present the following 10 hospitals with the MAP Award for High Performance in Revenue Cycle during ANI.

Glenn Steele, president and CEO of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., will deliver a keynote address on the subject of physician integration at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s 2010 ANI conference. He spoke recently with Healthcare Finance News Editor Richard Pizzi about some of the factors involved in achieving true integration.

MEDecision announced today a partnership with NaviNet that will enable payers to deliver patient clinical summaries to any provider in the vast NaviNet Network.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected Companion Data Services to provide data processing and hosting operations for a National Level Repository system that will track incentive payments to heathcare providers that adopt electronic health records and upgrade their computer systems.